Records shed light on local efforts to open public land for oil shale
E&E News, June 18, 2012 A watchdog group has released hundreds of pages of documents that it says raise questions about a closed-door meeting last spring during which state, local and industry...
View ArticleOil Shale Development: A Threat to CO Water?
Public News Service, June 18, 2012 A group of Front Range water providers is worried that the Bureau of Land Management’s oversight of potential water use by oil shale companies doesn’t go far enough....
View ArticleEditorial: Closed rebellion Counties hide oil shale meeting
Salt Lake City Tribune, June 20, 2012 By acting this way, officials who are clearly salivating over the very thin prospect of an oil shale boom succeed only in undermining their own legal, political...
View ArticleEditorial: Oil shale meeting illegal
Standard-Examiner, June 21, 2012 A closed-door meeting where three Utah counties formulated a plan to fight potential federal efforts to limit leases for oil shale exploration was illegal. The general...
View ArticleCampbell: Closed oil-shale session fails open-government test
Salt Lake Tribune, June 22, 2012 Open-government advocates are correct when they say Utah ran afoul of the state’s open-meetings law during a March 27 strategy session about oil-shale development....
View ArticleUtah oil shale permit now in limbo
Salt Lake Tribune, June 26, 2012 An environmental appeal of a Utah company’s permit to mine oil shale in the Uinta Basin is on hold — along with the permit approval — after state and company officials...
View ArticleOil shale project delayed in Utah
Daily Herald, June 27, 2012 Utah regulators say a Utah company will delay an oil-shale development project for more groundwater studies… Red Leaf has said it wanted to get started this year. It’s...
View ArticleLawsuit accuses Uintah County commissioners of violating Open Meetings Act
Deseret News, July 10, 2012 A Vernal woman is challenging the legality of a closed-door meeting that involved county commissioners from Colorado, Utah and Wyoming and representatives from several oil...
View ArticleUtah meeting on federal regs violated state law — watchdog groups
E&E News, July 12, 2012 Government watchdog groups and activists are turning up the heat on a Utah county whose leaders organized a closed-door meeting last spring with state and industry...
View ArticleAppeal filed to stop Uintah County commissioners from hiding documents about...
Salt Lake City, Utah – Today, Colorado Common Cause, Alliance for a Better UTAH and a Utah open government activist and resident of Vernal, Utah, joined together to contest Uintah County’s decision to...
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