SITLA returns fees to oil and gas companies as sides await outcome of Biden-ordered review.
(Zak Podmore | Tribune file photo) Looking west from a parcel of Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) land that was leased to an oil and gas company in October before the leasing fees were refunded. The parcel overlaps with the original boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument, which President Joe Biden has promised to restore.
| March 10, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
A Utah agency that came under fire last year for leasing land in the original boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument has refunded fees to the two oil and gas companies involved in the deal.
Utah agency reverses course, pulls back energy leases in original Bears Ears monument
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SUWA can sue over Zinke’s secret meetings with Utah county commissioners over monuments Brian Maffly © Trent Nelson (Trent Nelson | Tribune file photo) Then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke speaks at a news conference at the Kanab Airport in May 2017. Standing with him were Rep. Chris Stewart and a group of county commissioners.
Four years ago, then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke met privately with three Utah county commissions as part of the process that led to the reduction of two large national monuments.
The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, or SUWA, challenged the legality of the secret meetings in court, where the group not only lost but also was ordered to pay tens of thousands of dollars in attorney fees to Kane, Garfield and San Juan counties.
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