Federal management has made it more and difficult for projects to get done on public land. For example, the Bureau of Land Management has decided that it will decrease the acreage available for oil shale and oil sand development. The problems caused by federal agencies are often larger than they appear. In the case of oil shale and oil sand development the decrease in available land for lease makes it more difficult and less viable for companies to come in and extract the resource. If Utah had more control then the state could work at the local level with the companies in a non-adversarial relationship.
Derek
Derek Dowsett is the Producer of the County Seat. Now entering his 11th season of the program, he has received what he considers a "Crash Course" in County Government.