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Watching Government: Hard work for Western Caucus

04/06/2009
USRep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) was ready to give Ken Salazar the benefit of the doubt. Then, during the US Interior secretary’s first few weeks in office, he canceled several leases from a December onshore sale in Utah, delayed preparation of a new 5-year Outer Continental Shelf leasing plan, and withdrew an oil shale proposal solicitation.The lease cancellations particularly disturbed Bishop, who is a senior member of the House Natural Resources Committee, because they deprived Utah of $300 million in federal royalties. “He didn’t just take away leases. He affected people’s lives; he took away jobs,” Bishop told me on Mar. 20.Bishop said Salazar’s actions ...
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