Oil Lease

Obama's speech on energy policy announced a couple of initiatives - $15B/year plus oil-lease fees going to renewables R&D after election. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Their moves were upstaged Wednesday by the Bush administration, which announced a long-planned action to move forward with big oil-lease sales in Alaska. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Congressman James Garfield, who became a substantial investor in oil lands—and, later, President of the United States—reported to an oil-lease salesman that he had discussed oil with a number of other members of Congress, “who are in the business, for you must know the fever has assailed Congress in no mild form.” ❋ Daniel Yergin (2008)

Barack Obama's administration plans 15 offshore oil-lease sales from 2012 to 2017, keeping the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards off-limits for drilling.

And when the landmen, as oil-lease buyers are called, contacted Rick Davis's 88-year-old mother, Ruth, this year, he advised her to follow Joe's dream and take the money. ❋ By KIRK JOHNSON (2011)

Salazar defends decision to scrap Utah oil-lease sale in last days of Bush administration ❋ Unknown (2010)

Making this point was the Bureau of Land Management's decision on April 8 to pull 91,000 acres in Montana, South Dakota and North Dakota from an expected oil-lease auction so that the federal agency could study how oilfield activities can contribute to climate change. ❋ [email protected] (Bismarck Tribune: Edi (2010)

It was a well-deserved death: during the past decade, M.M.S. officials had let oil companies shortchange the government on oil-lease payments, accepted gifts from industry representatives, and, in some cases, literally slept with the people they were regulating. ❋ Unknown (2010)

SALT LAKE CITY - Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is defending his decision to scrap an oil-lease sale in Utah even though an internal investigation found nothing improper about an auction held in the final days of the Bush administration. ❋ Paul Foy The Associated Press Aspen (2010)

An environmental activist in Salt Lake City posed as a bidder in an oil-lease auction and outbid the other bidders, effectively subverting the auction of state lands for oil drilling. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The investigation began April 9, when the Archer County Sheriff's Office received a call from a witness who found the body of William Steele, 38, of the Groesbeck area, on an oil-lease road, said Archer County Lt. Jack McGuinn. ❋ Unknown (2009)