Utah Wars -Oil and... 
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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FeaturedArticle
Student tries to foil Bush oil plan
The Bush administration may almost be over, but its final actions still have some environmentalists fuming. Tim DeChristopher moved from Pittsburgh to Salt Lake City to study economics at the...
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FeaturedBlog Post
Imported Administrative Civil Disobediance
Has anyone else been following the Single-Acre land purchase this week by Greenpeace at Heathrow airport in the UK? By purchasing a single acre of land the addition of another runway and expansion of...
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FeaturedEvent
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.
Featured Resource
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
- US judge suspends sale of land slated for oil drilling
- 8 Worth Saving
- Oil and Gas Leasing in Utah: The Back Story
- Viralizing the Push-Back
- Together We Stand
- An environmental activist who caused chaos at an auction may face prosecution.
- Oil lays waste to the West The greed, speed and scale of development in wild lands is an open wound on America.
Blog Posts
News Articles
- Court Orders Government to Stop Land Leasing in Utah
- Bogus bidder: I've got the lease money
- Bogus BLM bidder: Cites ethics in scheme to derail drilling
- Democracy Now! Interview Post Indictment April 3 2009
- Interior Chief May Overturn Oil Leases
- Interior boss says no to drilling on 8 Utah parcels
- U.S. Blocks Oil Drilling at 60 Sites in Utah
