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U.S. holds backlog of protested drill leases

Posted: August 11, 2009 at 3:34 a.m.

Brian Wixom's company has paid the U.S. government hundreds of thousands of dollars for leases to drill for oil and gas on federal lands over the years, only to never put a rig in the ground.

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Business, Pages 23, 24 on 08/11/2009

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