Feds Slow-Rolling the Domestic Oil and Gas Industry -- Utah's Experience

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"They can say whatever they want," Bill Ryan, an oil-field services consultant, said of an Interior Department that he believes is blocking what could be a much larger industry. "

(President Barack) Obama's administration can say they're pro-development, but they always add 'as long as it's environmentally sound.' They're using the environmental argument to hamper development."

While state lawmakers threaten a long-shot legal bid to own Utah's federal lands and prime the petroleum pump, the congressional delegation rails against an administration it calls anti-energy.

"We're seeing more exploitation of state and private lands just because companies are seeing that it's getting more difficult on federal lands," said John Baza, director of the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining.

'Nuf said.