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Geothermal energy lease sale goes through despite protests over environmental review process Joan Meiners, St. George Spectrum & Daily News
The Bureau of Land Management sold leases last Tuesday for geothermal energy development on 11 land parcels amounting to more than 26,000 acres throughout southwestern Utah. Their plan to offer up 28 parcels, totaling 67,586 acres in Millard, Beaver and Iron Counties, was confirmed in late October after first being announced in mid-September in advance of a 15-day public comment period that closed October 1.
Only 40% of the available parcels sold Tuesday, with a maximum bid of $10 per acre, netting approximately $168,000 from two different bidding companies, one based in Salt Lake City and the other in Houston, Texas. Half of this money will go to the state of Utah, 25% to the counties involved and the remainder to the U.S. Department of Treasury, according to the BLM. The remaining 60% of the land offered in the sa
SALT LAKE CITY With climate change a cornerstone of his campaign and central to his proposed Cabinet picks, President-elect Joe Biden has vowed to put an end to any new oil and gas development on federal lands and federal waters.
That promise, if enacted, would severely impact Utah and seven other western states with huge chunks of federal land, with a new study predicting staggering economic losses and extreme costs to human lives.
Conducted by University of Wyoming professor Tim Considine at the request of the Wyoming Energy Authority, the study lays out these dire predictions of losses to those states over four years under a Biden administration: