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Colorado: David Hayes

May 21, 2009 - 10:21 am
NEWS FEED: Denver Post

GOP senators lift hold on Salazar's top aide

By John Ingold

Two Republican U.S. senators agreed Wednesday to lift their procedural roadblocks and, hours later, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's right- hand man was confirmed by a unanimous Senate vote.

But the Republicans claimed victory, saying they had forced Salazar to reconsider his cancellation of oil and gas leases near national parks in Utah. The cancellation of the leases — issued during the last days of the Bush administration and which Salazar said were poorly considered — was the key motivation for Sens. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, to place a hold on the confirmation of Interior veteran David Hayes as deputy secretary of the department.

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March 26, 2009 - 01:03 pm
NEWS FEED: Denver Post

Salazar is drilling home renewables' new power

WASHINGTON — In one of her earliest appearances before the Senate Natural Resources Committee, Gale Norton, President George W. Bush's first interior secretary, proclaimed in 2001 the need to "explore the entire smorgasbord of different options" when it came to domestic energy production.

But what was actually on the buffet was telling: Drilling off the coast of Florida, coal extraction in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah and exploring for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

Now fast forward eight years, to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's first appearance before the same Senate committee last week.

He laid out maps that showed wind-energy potential across the West; talked about tapping geothermal energy underlying states including Idaho and Colorado; and evoked the vision of a high-tech "super- electron highway" that will connect "renewable-energy zones" on public lands to homes in California or New Jersey.

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