Yesterday afternoon, December 8, BLM announced its decision to defer from leasing two highly contested oil and gas lease parcels in Nine Mile Canyon, citing unresolved issues regarding impacts to rock art and other cultural resources.
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Press Release: Statement on the Failure of Representative Rob Bishop’s Public Lands Initiative
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 9, 2016 Contact: Scott Groene, Executive Director, SUWA 801-712-5034 Yesterday, House Speaker Paul Ryan’s spokesperson said “The House just took its last vote of the year.” […]
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CategoriesCultural Resources
Press Release: Historic Preservation Groups, Native American Tribe and Conservationists Protest BLM Proposed Lease Sale in Nine Mile Canyon and Desolation Canyon Proposed Wilderness
A proposal by the Bureau of Land Management to sell six oil and gas leases in Nine Mile Canyon and the greater Desolation Canyon region has been met with strong opposition by historic preservation groups, The Hopi Tribe, and a coalition of conservation groups.
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Press Release: Court Declares Fish and Wildlife Service Failed to Protect Rare Utah, Colorado Wildflowers Threatened by Oil Shale Mining
A federal district court judge in Colorado ruled yesterday in favor of SUWA and a coalition of conservation groups in their challenge to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to deny Endangered Species Act protection to two imperiled wildflowers that live only on oil shale formations in Utah and...
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Press Release: Court Rejects Drilling in Upper Desolation Canyon
SALT LAKE CITY (October 5, 2016) – A federal judge has rejected a natural gas project on public lands along the Upper Desolation Canyon on the Green River in eastern Utah.
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