Obama names Salazar to head Interior - December 21, 2008

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industryDecember 2008

Vol. 13, No. 51

Week of December 21, 2008

Obama names Salazar to head Interior

President-elect Barack Obama’s pick for secretary of the Interior Department has been an opponent of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Obama announced Dec. 17 he’s picking Colorado senator Ken Salazar to lead the Interior Department.

The 58-year-old Salazar opposed drilling in ANWR on Alaska’s North Slope and objected to the Bush administration’s efforts to lease western lands for oil shale development.

It will be up to the Obama administration whether to go ahead with oil shale leasing.

ANWR development would need the approval of Congress.

Before being elected to the Senate in 2004, Salazar was Colorado’s attorney general.

He also headed the state’s Natural Resources Department from 1990 to 1994.

Salazar says he will do all he can to help reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil.

—The Associated Press

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