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Drillers Eye Oil Reserves off California Coast

Drillers eye oil reserves off California coast: The Jenner coast north of Bodega Bay is one of the spots along the California coast that has been studied for potential oil and gas exploration. (Brian L Frank / The Chronicle)

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government is taking steps that may open California's fabled coast to oil drilling in as few as three years, an action that could place dozens of platforms off the Sonoma, Mendocino and Humboldt coasts, and raises the specter of spills, air pollution and increased ship traffic into San Francisco Bay.

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November 20, 2008
12:57 PM

CONTACT: The Wilderness Society

Nada Culver, 303-650-5818 ext. 117, nada_culver@tws.org
Alex Daue, 303-650-5818 ext. 108, alex_daue@tws.org 

Bush Administration Misses Yet Another Opportunity to Guide America to a Sustainable Energy Future

While Failing to Protect Treasured Public Lands

West-Wide Energy Corridor Final Programmatic EIS Issued Today

DENVER - November 20 - The Bush administration's Bureau of Land Management and Department of Energy today issued a plan for energy corridors throughout the West, squandering an opportunity to move the United States toward a renewable energy based economy and opening iconic public wildlands to destructive development. The plan comes despite pleas for a new direction in energy development from Congress, state agencies, tribal governments and over 14,000 members of the public.

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Uproar Over Federal Drilling Leases Next To Parks

The Bureau of Land Management has proposed selling oil and gas leases in wilderness areas of Utah, including this rock outcropping, Hatch Point, out side Canyonlands National Park in the southeastern part of the state. (By Kevin Walker -- Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance Via Associated Press)

SALT LAKE CITY - The view of Delicate Arch natural bridge - an unspoiled landmark so iconic it's on Utah's license plates - could one day include a drilling platform under a proposal that environmentalists call a Bush administration "fire sale" for the oil and gas industry.

Late on Election Day, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced a Dec. 19 auction of more than 50,000 acres of oil and gas parcels alongside or within view of Arches National Park and two other redrock national parks in Utah: Dinosaur and Canyonlands.

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