Coal-fired plant may be out of steam before itÕs up

2010-03-02T02:15:29Z

<div><p> A controversial coal-fired power plant was supposed to be under construction near Mesquite by now.</p><p>Sithe Global Power planned to have the Toquop Energy Project generating relatively cheap electricity by 2013 so it could sell the power wholesale to Nevada and other Southwest states.</p><p>But the site remains empty, and many Mes...

Public employees make use of ample free time with side jobs

2010-02-23T02:30:50Z

<div><p> With all the recent hullabaloo over Clark County employeesÕ salaries — including the $200,000 average in salary, overtime and benefits for firefighters — you might be surprised to know how many county workers moonlight to make extra money.</p><p>Their outside work came into question last week when a firefighterÕs funeral home, La Paloma, won the right to be included in the rotation of mortuaries called by th...

Solar project gets tentative OK for US loan aid

2010-02-22T22:15:13Z

<div id="subtitle">Huge Calif. solar project gets preliminary OK for $1.4 billion in US loan guarantees</div><div><p>The Obama administration on Monday gave preliminary approval for $1.4 billion in federal loan guarantees for a sprawling solar-energy project in California's Wyoming's once-booming gas industry approaches economic and regulatory crossroads</div><div><p>Drilling rigs on the horizon underscore that cattle ranching and tourism no longer drive the economy in this picturesque town at the foot of the Wind River Range.</p><p>But the future of the natural gas industry in the Pinedale, Wyo., area — scene of a decade of intense drilling into two of the ...

Calif. county says itÕs getting shaft in plan for solar plant

2010-02-22T09:19:31Z

<div id="subtitle">San Bernardino objects to big project near Primm</div><div><p> Hundreds of out-of-work Las Vegas construction workers have been waiting for a chance to start building a giant solar plant in California, just southwest of Primm, but

NV Energy to buy power from geothermal power plant

2010-02-22T10:17:35Z

<div id="subtitle">NV Energy signs 20-year deal to buy power from Nevada geothermal power plant</div><div><p>Utility NV Energy said Wednesday that it has signed a 20-year deal to buy power from a geothermal power plant being developed by Ram Power Corp. in central Nevada.&l...

BLM delays eastern Nevada wild horse roundup

2010-02-22T10:43:03Z

<div id="subtitle">Federal BLM delays eastern Nevada wild horse roundup; advocates cite threat of lawsuit</div><div><p>Federal land managers said Monday they'll delay a roundup of most of the nearly 600 wild horses in a range in eastern Nevada, at least until after the herd's spring foaling season.</p><p>Advocates fighting to stop mustang roundups in the West said they ...

Contentious Nevada wild-horse roundup ends

2010-02-22T11:15:41Z

<div id="subtitle">BLM ends major wild-horse roundup in Nevada that drew strong opposition from activists</div><div><p>Federal land managers have finished a major roundup of wild horses from the range north of Reno.</p><p>U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials on Friday said 1,922 mustan...

Advocates hoping to preserve stretch of land for fossil research

2010-02-22T12:24:21Z

<div><p> Advocates for the preservation of a rich ice age fossil bed in the northern valley say a recently released federal study greatly aids their efforts to designate up to 30,000 acres as a national monument.</p><p>Last month the Bureau of Land Management released a draft environmental impact statement designating 11,000 acres along the Upper Nevada wild horse roundup</div><div><p>Wild-horse advocates have criticized federal land managers after the deaths of 26 mustangs so far in a government roundup on the range north of Reno — up from nine deaths a week ago.</p><p>The New Mexico and 3 other states nets more than $20 million</div><div><p>The Bureau of Land Management's quarterly oil and gas lease sale has netted nearly $20.4 million for 34 federal leases in New Mexico, Oklahoma,

From Feral To Friendly, Meet The Mustang

2010-02-22T17:58:11Z

Mustang horses are probably the most well known wild horse in the United States. The name "Mustang" is derived from the Spanish words "meste&#1089;o" or "monstenco" which is synonymous for "stray", "ownerless" or "wild." Mustangs come from domestic horses which reverted to a wild state after becoming separated from their human caretakers. They currently roam primarily on public land in the southwestern United States of

BLM sets lease sale in New Mexico for Wednesday

2010-02-22T18:14:18Z

<div id="subtitle">Bureau of Land Management sets oil, gas lease sale in New Mexico for Wednesday</div><div><p>The Bureau of Land Management plans an oil and gas lease sale on federal lands in New Mexico and three other states on Wednesday.</p><p>The sale of oil and gas mineral rig...

Wyoming gas, oil drilling permits decline

2010-02-22T19:56:22Z

<div id="subtitle">Wyoming BLM reports sharp decline in oil, gas drilling permits</div><div><p>The U.S. Bureau of Land Management processed fewer oil and gas drilling permits in Wyoming last year than in any year since 2003, the agency's Wyoming office reports.</p><p>The BLM's Wyoming of...

Tribes sue over Simplot land swap in Idaho

2010-02-22T22:01:06Z

<div id="subtitle">Shoshone-Bannock Tribes sue to stop swap of Simplot-owned land with BLM property in Idaho</div><div><p>The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes have filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management, contending...

Wild Horses

2010-01-11T13:47:42Z

In this image released by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management, wild horses are seen after a Bureau of Land Management roundup at the Caliante Complex gather near Panaca, Nev., on Monday, Oct. 5, 2009. Thousands of mustangs that now roam the West would be moved to preserves in the Midwest and East under a new California wrestle barbed-wire fences to save vulnerable antelope</div><div><p>The fences crossing the desolate Carrizo Plain are remnants of the hardscrabble homesteaders who arrived a century ago, then abandoned the arid, alkaline land to the elements.</p><p>Now the barbed-wire legacy of ranching and farming on this inhospitabl...

Industry: Grouse measures could mean delays, costs

2010-02-23T01:08:14Z

<div id="subtitle">Wyoming oil, gas group says sage grouse measures could mean drilling delays, higher costs</div><div><p>Oil and gas companies face more drilling delays and higher costs because of a new U.S. Bureau of Land Management policy for protecting sage grouse in Wyoming, according to the Utah, reschedules it for July</div><div><p>The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has postponed plans to round up about 185 wild horses from a western Utah herd.</p><p>The agency had planned the roundup for Jan. 15, but it's been resch...

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