WASHINGTON - Nearly three-fourths of the 40
million acres of public land currently leased for oil and gas development in the continental United States outside
Alaska isn’t producing any oil or gas, federal records show, even as the Bush administration pushes to open
more environmentally sensitive public lands for oil and gas development.
An Associated Press computer analysis of
Bureau of Land Management records found that 80 percent of federal lands leased for oil and gas production in
Wyoming are producing no oil or gas. Neither are 83 percent of the leased acres in Montana, 77 percent in Utah, 71
percent in Colorado, 36 percent in New Mexico and 99 percent in Nevada
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