"We need to make sure on the front end that we have got collaborative efforts working because that is a key to moving forward on these various contracts in timber sales."
"As Senator Barrasso has said, there are 12 States today that are facing an epidemic with the bark beetle."
"I have concerns about timber sale programs and how that will play into this."
"Because if a million trees are falling every 10 days, and we want to give considerable thought to that, but the bark beetle infestation is continuing."
"But the President's budget doesn't include bark beetle funding for the Intermountain West in fiscal year 2011."
"Carbon capture and sequestration can help us do that."
"Coal is affordable, abundant, and reliable."
"I think there is a bright future for CCS, but if we don't--Dr. Markowsky, if we don't do it and do it quickly and do it right, it isn't going to happen."
"As this goes forward, I don't know what kind of public participation you are expecting then in the permitting process, guidelines that the department would follow when it comes to the project's notifi..."
"The bills proposed by Senator Barrasso and Senator Casey make important contributions in this regard."
"Senator Barrasso's bill reduces one item of risk by explicitly reinforcing on public lands the common-law precedent that a storage space belongs to surface estate."