BLM delays any new wells on plateau Newly leased oil and gas drilling parcels on the Roan Plateau will remain undisturbed by drilling until June while a federal lawsuit challenging the Bureau of Land Management's lease of the land makes its way through the court system. Environmental groups, including the Colorado Environmental Coalition, sued the BLM and asked a federal judge Wednesday to issue a preliminary injunction barring the leases. She declined to grant the injunction, but BLM officials pledged to keep the land undisturbed until the lawsuit is concluded....