BLM's 2009 leasing is off to a good start, Salazar says. So are protests.


US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar cited the Bureau of Land Management's robust 2009 oil and gas leasing schedule a day after Utah's BLM office delayed issuing 31 awarded leases to resolve protests which arrived after the filing deadline.

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