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Fracking strains water supplies in drought-stricken West

Last updated Sunday, June 16, 2013 - 7:57am

SAN FRANCISCO -- The latest domestic energy boom is sweeping through some of the nation's driest pockets, drawing millions of gallons of water to unlock oil and gas reserves from beneath the Earth's surface.

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Utah oil, gas leases net BLM $140K

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 9:23am

SALT LAKE CITY -- The latest round of oil and gas lease sales in Utah netted the federal government nearly $140,000.

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Next oil boom could be in New Mexico

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 9:36am

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Executives from some of the nation's biggest oil and gas companies said Monday that the next big oil boom could take place in northwestern New Mexico.

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Utah bidders snap up drilling rights

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, November 14, 2012 - 10:14am

SALT LAKE CITY — Bidders snapped up more than 13,000 acres of federal leases in Utah for oil and gas drilling.

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Utah activist drops appeal in oil drilling auction case

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, September 28, 2012 - 12:04pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher says he’s giving up appeals of his two-year prison sentence for bidding on oil-and-gas parcels he couldn’t pay for at a federal auction in Utah.

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Utah man injured in ND oil rig blast dies

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 16, 2012 - 8:25am

WILLISTON, N.D. — Authorities say a Utah man has died of injuries suffered in an oil rig explosion in western North Dakota.

A statement from the Mountrail County Sheriff’s Office says 29-year-old Jeffery Kinkaid of Nephi, Utah died Friday.

The Williston Herald reports that Kinkaid was burned in an explosion on Sept. 4 at a rig site southwest of Stanley.

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Royal Dutch Shell's experimental oil shale development facility in Piceance Basin, Colorado. (U.S. Geological Survey)

Uintah County to revisit oil shale resolution

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, August 3, 2012 - 10:45am

VERNAL — The Uintah County Commission is acknowledging a "technical" violation of the state’s open-meeting law when it met to privately discuss a federal plan for oil shale development with officials from Utah, Wyoming and Colorado.

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Lt. Gov. Greg Bell discusses illegals, housing and gasoline prices

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, March 26, 2012 - 6:14pm

I enjoyed hearing Lt. Gov. Greg Bell talk last week to a Bank of Utah gathering about Utah’s improving economy. Because there’s always more in such a talk than can fit into a news story, I thought I’d ponder a few leftovers:

• Someone asked if illegal immigration is costing Utah taxpayers a lot of money for schools. It is illegal for schools to ask for a child’s documentation, Bell said, adding that illegals are only about 4 percent of Utah’s population.

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$In this July 27 file photo, the sun shines over a Range Resources well site in Washington, Pa. The company is one of many drilling into the Marcellus Shale layer deep underground and "fracking" the area to release natural gas. The federal government needs to track safety hazards tied to thousands of unregulated pipelines gathering new oil and gas supplies released through the fracking process, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)$

Audit: Gas lines tied to fracking lack oversight

Garance Burke The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, March 24, 2012 - 10:43pm

SAN FRANCISCO — Government auditors say federal officials know nothing about thousands of miles of pipelines that carry natural gas released through the drilling method known as fracking and need to step up oversight to make sure they are running safely.

Amid the gas-drilling boom, private companies have put in hundreds of small gathering pipelines in recent years to collect new fuel supplies released through the high-pressure drilling technique.