BLM names gas pipeline project manager

The Bureau of Land Management in Alaska said March 13 that Ron Dunton has been appointed gas pipeline project manager.

Dunton, a former BLM land and resources manager from New Mexico, will oversee the development and processing of gas pipeline applications submitted to BLM for activities on federal land. BLM will be involved in developing environmental analyses and granting rights of way for proposed gas pipelines on federal lands.

Dunton began his federal career with BLM in 1969 working on a helitac crew for the Alaska Fire Service in Fairbanks. Before returning to Alaska, he recently served as the deputy state director for Lands and Resources in the BLM New Mexico State Office. He also completed a six-month detail in the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C., as the acting director of the Office of Wildland Fire Coordination. He has served as BLM national fire program manager and as a resource manager in Socorro and Carlsbad field offices in New Mexico.

“Ron has in-depth experience in land and resource management,” Alaska State Director Tom Lonnie said in a statement, “and his experience as a manager and his ability to build relationships with BLM’s customers is what we need in this position.”

Dunton began work at the BLM Alaska State Office in Anchorage March 9.

—Petroleum News