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Today the Bureau of Land Management in Wyoming held a sale for the lease of 148 million tons of coal on public land in the Powder River Basin — and received not a single bid, a first in the state BLM’s history. The sale was the first of two that the BLM had planned in the area over the next month, which combined would pave the way for the extraction of 316 million tons of Powder River Basin coal. Cloud Peak Energy had asked the BLM back in 2006 to open the site of today’s lease to mining, presumably to expand on its adjacent Cloud Peak mine. But today, the energy company decided it wouldn’t bid, and no one else stepped up (federal coal leases frequently see only one bidder). grist.org/news/coal-shoulder-blm-sells-controversial-coal-mining-lease-but-no-ones-buying/
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:22:02 +0000

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