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WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Colorado using the moratorium

03/24/2008
Several coastal states have used the congressionally imposed federal leasing moratorium for about 30 years to keep oil and gas activity away from their shores. Colorado now seems willing to use it onshore.Democrats in the state’s congressional delegation inserted a provision into the fiscal 2008 budget reconciliation act in December which suspends federal oil shale leasing for a year. The US Senate voted to extend the delay through fiscal 2009.Meanwhile, Assistant US Interior Sec. C. Stephen Allred told Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter Jr. that the Bureau of Land Management is incorporating concepts Ritter proposed in December into its management plan for the Roan Plateau on the state&rsqu...
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