Monument jeopardizes area of Utah`s resources
Journal Article
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· Oil and Gas Journal
OSTI ID:455512
Utah is working hard to salvage the value of coal, oil and gas, and other minerals whose realization was placed in jeopardy with creation of a national monument last year. The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument extends across 1.7 million acres in Kane and Garfield counties. It encompasses 176,000 acres of Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands. The monument takes in part of one oil field and perceived additional oil and gas potential, but coal is the big loser. Using a 1996 US Geological survey resource assessment and excluding resources considered unminable, the Utah Geological Survey estimated that a minimum 11.36 billion tons of coal are technically recoverable from the Kaiparowits Plateau coal field within the monument; of that, 870 million tons is on Utah school trust lands. President Clinton directed the Interior secretary to trade monument lands administered by the state School and Institutional Lands Trust Administration for other federal lands or resources of comparable value in Utah. State officials are concerned that such comparable lands and resources do not exist. The paper discusses the Reese Canyon prospects, overall potential, energy in the area, the Upper Valley field, coalbed gas, and carbon dioxide.
- OSTI ID:
- 455512
- Journal Information:
- Oil and Gas Journal, Journal Name: Oil and Gas Journal Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 95; ISSN 0030-1388; ISSN OIGJAV
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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