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> it would cost that much or more to replace it sometime in the 
future.   Don 

Like the pioneers, you are taking some 
'roots' with you .... <g>
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http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap12-09-021003.asp?t=apnew&vts=12920040236<http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap12-09-021003.asp?t=apnew&vts=12920040236>

 

Groups say government plans oil and gas lease auction for national forest 
tracts

By PAUL FOY
ASSOCIATED PRESS

SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 9 - A federal oil and gas lease auction planned for 
Friday will offer companies the chance to bid for drilling rights on    
roadless    tracts in a popular national forest, conservation groups say. 

 

The auction will be run by the Bureau of Land Management and offers 16,700 
acres of land in the <>Uinta National Forest, according to conservation and 
sportsmen groups. 


The areas are popular with hikers, hunters and anglers, and shelter wildlife 
such as elk, bald eagles, sage grouse and mule deer. 


But the Forest Service said drilling rights will not necessarily lead to 
surface occupancy or road-building. Energy companies could use slant drilling 
to reach underground oil or gas pockets from outside the roadless parcels, 
said Kim Martin, forest engineer for the Uinta National Forest. 


A coalition of conservation and outdoor industry groups on Wednesday asked 
the Forest Service to withdraw the lands from auction, but Martin said the 
Forest Service finished an environmental impact statement several years ago 
that cleared them for leasing. 


Peter Metcalf, president of the Salt Lake City-based Black Diamond Equipment 
Ltd., said oil and gas development would ruin the qualities that customers 
seek when they hike in the area. 


''It's bad policy and a bad deal - bad for people, bad for the outdoor 
industry, and bad for Utah's economy that is better served by sustainable 
recreation than one-time drilling,'' he said. 


Lee Peacock, president of the Utah Petroleum Association, said some companies 
obtain leases to conduct seismic surveys that don't disturb public lands. But 
he also said the nation needs resources that are under more sensitive areas. 


''Everyone wishes we could find oil and gas in nice, easy places, but those 
places are gone, used up. The oil and gas potential is evolving into more 
sensitive areas. We have to make a decision as a society to allow the 
responsible development of oil and gas leases on public lands,'' he said. 



(MY NOTE : If "those places are gone, used up" - why is government still 
being stupid about *not* going to solar/wind power ?)


On Tuesday, the bureau pulled from the offering parcels of land within view 
of Hovenweep National Monument on the Utah-Colorado border. The possibility 
of drilling on those tracts drew protests from archeologists, conservation 
groups and a former park ranger. 

 

On the Net: Uinta National Forest: 
http://www.fs.fed.us/r4/uinta/<http://www.fs.fed.us/r4/uinta/> 
Utah Petroleum Association: 
http://www.utahpetroleum.org/<http://www.utahpetroleum.org/> 



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