Administration blocks more Bush-era oil shale development leases

[iandhr]

Source: LA TIMES

Reporting from Washington and Denver -- The Interior Department on Wednesday blocked a Bush administration plan to open parts of the Mountain West for oil shale development, announcing that it would first study the water, power and land-use issues that complicate one of the nation's most abundant but controversial untapped sources of energy.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar canceled shale development leases on federal land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming and launched a second round of leases in the region limited to research purposes. In doing so, he rebuked what he called former President George W. Bush's "headlong rush" to begin development.Reporting from Washington and Denver -- The Interior Department on Wednesday blocked a Bush administration plan to open parts of the Mountain West for oil shale development, announcing that it would first study the water, power and land-use issues that complicate one of the nation's most abundant but controversial untapped sources of energy.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-na-oil-shale26-2009feb26,0,7741422.story

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NOW THIS IS CHANGE. A REAL ENERGY POICEY WHAT A CONCEPT

[aquart]

1. Good.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Hardly affects me

on account of the fact I'm c. 14 miles NW of central London but I must say that really is the best news I've read this week.

[lsewpershad]

3. Good

sensible move.

[infidel dog]

4. Thank you, Mr. Obama, for returning sanity to the Dept. of the Interior.

Environmental rape and energy lunacy are no longer official U.S. government policy. What wonderful news! I can't tell you how thankful I am the Criminal Chimp and his gang of idiots are out of power. Really, words fail me.