Dispatches from the battlefront of the oil and gas leasing war in Utah.
Viralizing the Push-Back -- by Phil Triolo
Oil and Gas Leasing in Utah: The Back Story -- by Richard Lance Christie
Thanks to Rich for this: "In 2004, Environmental Working Group did a report titled "Who Owns the West?" The link is to the section on oil & gas leases. Obviously, the Bush administration has done more in the last four years."
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Oil and Gas Leasing in Utah: The Back Story
--by Richard Lance Christie On November 6, the Salt Lake Tribune editorialized that “Bush administration officials are rushing to implement new rules and change old ones before they...
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Original Monkey-Wrench Gang member message to Tim!
Tim, you did wonderfully. I’m with you, as I’m sure Abbey is also. To resist unjust laws and unjust regulations and unjust rules is most honorable. Thank you so much, and I’ll do what I can...
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LIVE on Radio Active, Tuesday, 1/6 on KRCL Radio Active
Tim will be Live on Tuesday, January 6th, with Troy Williams on the Award Winning radio show "Radio Active", discussing all aspects of his recent act of Civil Disobedience.
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BLM Land Use Map / NILS' GeoCommunicator
The Land and Mineral Use Records web site is an Internet mapping application within NILS' GeoCommunicator. It allows users to search, locate, and map the BLM's land and mineral use authorizations and mining claims on public lands throughout the...
Latest News
Land auction monkeywrencher has a new plan
The Salt Lake Tribune. Posted: 12/31/2008 07:09:05 PM MST Fundraising » DeChristopher hopes to run out the clock By Patty Henetz The University of Utah student who foiled a federal oil...
Articles
A bid to sell off more than 100,000 acres of land near national parks in Utah for oil and gas drilling was hal...
The Bush administration may almost be over, but its final actions still have some environmentalists fuming. Ti...
A ground-level report on the oil and gas leasing war in Utah. By Phil Triolo What couldnt be done with lett...
Salazar right to cancel drilling leases Tribune Editorial Salt Lake Tribune Updated:10/14/2009 05:47:00 ...
I thought I was acting alone.I thought what I did last Friday at the BLM oil and gas auction was just an indiv...
What's a legitimate form of protest? Is it OK to throw a shoe at the president whose army invaded your country...
On election day, the Bureau of Land Management in Utah quietly announced its last round of oil and gas lease s...
Blog Posts
Thank you for the question, Senator Bennett. What is your suggestion Mr. DeChristopher, and those of your s...
To Brett Tolman, US Attorney: Today's Salt Lake Tribune pieceon the Tim DeChristopher case by Rebecca Walsh r...
The Fires are blazing and we, the people, need to collectively focus on spreading the figurative flames across...
Has anyone else been following the Single-Acre land purchase this week by Greenpeace at Heathrow airport in th...- For the Tim DeChristopher Legal defense fund. Thanks for your courage! S Higgins, Hagerstown, MD Frie...
Thank you all so much for your support. It gives me real hope for my future to see so many others who are wil...- I have been handed the role of being the go-between a person who acts completely out of his conscience and the...
News Articles
Finds in Favor of Environmental Groups to Protect Wilderness WASHINGTON (January 18, 2009) More than 110,0...
Tim DeChristopher stood alone Friday when he placed bogus bids on drilling parcels near two Utah national par...
Utah Student Who Prevented Bush Admin Sell-Off of Public Land Charged for Disrupting Auction AMY GOODMAN: How ...- New Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday that he is reviewing possibly overturning "midnight actions"...
The money's in the bank for Tim DeChristopher, who said Friday he has reached his goal of amassing $45,000 to...- Eight of the 77 oil and gas lease parcels sold during a December auction that a saboteur wrecked and a federal...
- WASHINGTON The Department of the Interior has frozen oil and gas development on 60 of 77 contested drillin...
Events
Join Tim DeChristopher in Moab as he visits the parcels that he won at the BLM auction held on December 19th. ...
So.... what motivated Tim's daring act of civil disobedience? Please join him/this portal and thousands of o...
Resources
This Environmental Working Group report offers an excellent overview of the oil and gas leasing issue, with in...
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