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Taxpayers are the big losers in the way feds lease lands in Utah for oil and gas, watchdog group says

(Tribune file photo) An oil rig that near Roosevelt, Utah, in 2012. Between 2009 and 2018, the BLM would have received $1.4 billion more on its Utah holdings had it charged the same royalty it does for offshore production, according to a report released this week by Taxpayers for Common Sense.