Final Report: The Sixth Annual Interagency Geothermal Coordinating Council Report, Fiscal Year 1981
The U.S. Interagency Geothermal Coordinating Council was a multi-agency group charged with identifying and reducing barriers to geothermal energy development in the U.S. Many of the issues covered related to regulations for and progress in the leasing of Federal lands in the West for power development. The IGCC reports are important sources of historical information. This has a good list of non-competitive geothermal leases of federal land at the end of FY 1981. By this time, 1.6 million acres had been leased in Nevada alone, and 3.4 million acres total. It turned out later that many of these lease had been used by the Hunt brothers as security for loans they used to attempt to corner the silver market in the U.S., so the amount leased is a statistical aberration with respect to the U.S. geothermal industry's legitimate interest in some of these areas. (DJE 2005)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 860638
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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