BLM issues plan for use of public lands with oil shale and tar sands

The Bureau of Land Management finalized a plan Sept. 4 to guide the use of public lands containing oil shale and tar sands. In its Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) published in the Federal Register, the BLM amends 12 land-use plans in Utah, Colorado, including the Piceance Basin, and Wyoming to set aside approximately 1.9 million acres of public lands for potential commercial oil shale development.
“The goal of the BLM’s oil shale program…