Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, has been nominated to head the Bureau of Land Management, sparking controversy over her stance on energy development and conservation.
Clouds hover over the Ute Mountains that rests behind the Bureau of Land Management land in Cortez, Colorado on Oct. 1, 2021. A larger view of the Ute Mountains resembles a woman laying down. Over 8.3 million acres of public land in Colorado is managed by the Bureau of Land Management.has been nominated to lead the Bureau of Land Management, which oversees hundreds of millions of acres of publicly owned land across the nation.
“We’re very happy that the regulatory thicket is going to be cleared out by the Trump administration and we will work with them closely to do so,” Sgamma told The Post.and roughly 30% of the nation’s minerals, according to the agency’s website. The lands, most of which are in the West, are managed for multiple uses, including energy development, mining, livestock grazing and conservation.intended to put conservation on par with other activities on the federal lands.
“I’ve had the opportunity to work closely with her on several efforts to responsibly manage our lands while also allowing our oil and gas industry to thrive and bring back American energy dominance,” Boebert said in a statement.“Kathleen Sgamma would be an unmitigated disaster for our public lands as head of Trump’s Bureau of Land Management,” Taylor McKinnon, Southwest director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement.
“Sgamma will seek to lease every inch of our lands for drilling, no matter their recreational, scenic, ecological, or cultural value,” Hamby said.
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