ENERGY — CHEVRON SPILLS MORE THAN 400 BARRELS OF OIL IN UTAH DAYS AFTER GOVERNOR CALLED FOR MORE DOMESTIC PRODUCTION: In its “fight to continue drilling” in the Gulf of Mexico, Chevron told the Wall Street Journal today that “not all oil firms should be tarred with the brush of BP PLC’s Deepwater Horizon disaster.” However, on Saturday, Chevron discovered its own leaking pipeline was spewing 50 gallons of crude oil per minute into Red Butte Creek in Salt Lake City, UT. By the time crews capped the leak, more than 21,000 gallons of oil had spilled out, “coating ducks and geese” and closing the city’s largest park. Chevron “pledged to clean up the 6-mile mess” but “could not quantify the damage.” While emergency workers “believe they stopped” the oil leak on Saturday from hitting the Great Salt Lake, Chevron “could not say when it began, how much oil spilled into city waterways and why — despite pipeline monitors — it apparently took hours to learn of the accident.” By the time Chevron shut down the pipe, oil had reached Liberty Park’s pond, leaving 150 birds, including “goslings and chicks as young as a week old” in need of immediate rescue. Officials are now counting “300 birds” and “an endangered fish” among the threatened animals Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) called the spill “a devastating situation.” But this disaster comes just four days after the governor put out his energy plan which calls for domestic “on-shore” oil production “in areas with minimal environmental risk such as Utah.” Last month, both Herbert and Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) tried to block the Interior Department’s reforms for onshore oil and gas leasing. Herbert “said that if Interior doesn’t reconsider its drilling reforms, Utah might sue the federal government.”