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| Roundtable applauds the Blue Dog Coalition's Energy Principles | | Western Business Roundtable | Read the July 24, 2009, letter the Western Business Roundtable sent to members of the Congressional Blue Dog Coalition, applauding leadership the Coalition demonstrated in their Energy Priniciples. In the letter, the Roundtable also goes on to outline the three basic principles of strong domestic energy policy.� Read More...
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| Roundtable's Letter to Rep. Rahall Regarding H.R. 3534 | | Western Business Roundtable | On September 16, 2009, the Western Business Roundtable submitted a letter to Rep. Nick Rahall, Chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, expressing concern regarding the Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act (H.R.3534).
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| BACKGROUNDER: OCS Access and Development | | Western Business Roundtable | Read the Roundtable's backgrounder on the enormous and largely untapped domestic energy resource that can be found on publicly owned lands in the oceans off the U.S. – known as the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), and learn why it is more important than ever that federal laws and regulations are changed to allow responsible access.
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| Roundtable Urges Congress to Support American Energy | | Western Business Roundtable | Read the Roundtable's July 30 letter to Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, calling for support of H.R. 2540, The Protecting Investment in Oil Shale the Next Generation of Environmental, Energy and Resource Security Act. Now is the time to support American energy and tap into the estimated trillions of barrels of oil available for recovery in the American West. Read More...
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| Roundtable Letter to Sec. Ken Salazar on Recent Decision to Pull Oil & Gas Leases in Utah | | Western Business Roundtable | Read the Western Business Roundtable's letter to Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar regarding the Department’s recent decision to pull 77 Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas leases in Utah, based upon the claim that insufficient consultation had occurred between the National Park Service (NPS) and the BLM prior to the regularly scheduled December 2008 sale. Read More...
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| National Energy Policy -- Beating Back Congressional Rollbacks of EPAct05 | | Passage of comprehensive federal energy legislation was the No. 1 priority for the Roundtable in 2005. We were pleased that, after many years of effort, comprehensive legislation was passed and enacted into law. The final package contained a large number of the reform initiatives that the Roundtable relentlessly championed throughout the long, laborious legislative process.
Unfortunately, the 110th Congress saw Washington's energy policy focus shift from implementation of EPAct05 to its reopening.�A considerable amount of the Roundtable's 2007-08 resources were necessarily focused on a multi-faceted strategy to blunt momentum around a wholesale Congressional gutting of EPAct05's energy production and infrastructure development provisions.� Read More...
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| Energy Production -- Western Utility Sector Issues | | The Roundtable is involved in a large number of issues of importance to the Western utility sector. There are a number of challenges facing the sector, not the least of which are: climate change; energy supply constraints; generation and transmission infrastructure siting and development challenges; the growing number of Western Endangered Species species petitions; efforts to expand regulations (Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, etc.) in ways that could negatively impact the sector. Read More...
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| Energy Production -- Oil and Gas Sector Issues | | The Roundtable is involved in a large number of issues of importance to the oil and gas sector. We are avid advocates for a robust fuel portfolio, including a significant role for Western oil and gas resources.
There are a number of challenges facing the sector, not the least of which are: attempts to limit access to public lands for purposes of energy exploration and production; energy infrastructure siting and development challenges; the growing number of Western Endangered Species species petitions; efforts to expand regulations (climate change, Clean Water Act, etc.) in ways that could negatively impact the sector. Read More...
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| Energy Production -- Coal Sector Issues | | The Roundtable is involved in a large number of issues of importance to the coal sector. We are avid advocates for a robust fuel portfolio, including a significant role for Western coal resources.
There are a number of challenges facing the sector, not the least of which are: climate change; attempts to limit access to public lands for purposes of energy exploration and production; energy infrastructure siting and development challenges; the growing number of Western Endangered Species species petitions; efforts to expand regulations (Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, etc.) in ways that could negatively impact the sector. Read More...
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| Energy Production -- Western Renewable Energy Issues | | The Roundtable is involved in a large number of issues of importance to the Western renewable energy sector. There are a number of challenges facing the sector, not the least of which are: generation and transmission infrastructure siting and development challenges; the growing number of Western Endangered Species species petitions; efforts to expand regulations (Clean Water Act, etc.) in ways that could negatively impact the sector. Read More...
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| Energy Production -- Promotion of Western Oil Shale | | The Roundtable has been a leader in the promotion of Western oil shale as a critically important long-term contributor or the nation's energy security. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (“EPAct05”) took significant steps toward a strengthening of our nation’s energy independence by encouraging further responsible development of domestic resources. Among them were oil shale, tar sands, and other strategic unconventional fuels. Under Section 369 of the statute, the Secretary of the Interior is required to develop an oil shale and tar sands leasing program as soon as practicable and publish a final regulation to implement the program. Read More...
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| Energy Production -- Hydropower Issues | | The Roundtable is involved in a number of issues of importance to the hydropower sector. We are avid advocates for a robust fuel portfolio, including a signficant -- and growing -- role for Western hydropower resources. There are a number of challenges facing the sector, not the least of which are the growing number of Endangered Species and water-quality issues. Read More...
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| Energy Production -- Renewable Energy Sector Issues | | The Roundtable is involved in a large number of issues of importance to the renewable energy sector. We are avid advocates for a robust fuel portfolio, including a significant role for Western renewable resources.
There are a number of challenges facing the sector, not the least of which are: attempts to limit access to public lands for purposes of energy exploration and production; energy infrastructure siting and development challenges; the growing number of Western Endangered Species species petitions; efforts to expand regulations (i.e. Clean Water Act, etc.) in ways that could negatively impact the sector. Read More...
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