Letter: No drilling on federal land

If you needed any further evidence that continuing to allow oil and gas companies access to our public lands was a bad deal for Utah, look no further than last month’s announcement by the Bureau of Land Management that they’re slashing royalty payments for producers, a move that is likely to cost our state millions in lost revenue, money that could have gone to support public employees on the frontlines of the pandemic.Never mind that the federal royalty rate of 12.5% hasn’t be