from today's Desert Morning News (10/23):
Land to open for geothermal work
18 areas of Utah could be affected
By Stephen Speckman
Deseret News
Published: October 23, 2008
"Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Wednesday that the federal government plans to open 197 million acres of public land, including 18 areas in Utah, for geothermal development.
The Bureau of Land Management oversees 118 million acres of that land, and the National Forest Service manages 79 million acres.
Kempthorne predicted 270 Western communities could benefit directly from geothermal resources in 12 Western states, where most of those resources are under federal land.
The plan calls for amending 122 BLM land-use plans to allow geothermal power development that could provide as much as 5,540 megawatts of new electricity for 5.5 million homes by 2015. Kempthorne predicted that by 2025, geothermal energy could bring electricity 12 million homes." ...
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