The years-long legal conflict over oil and gas drilling on the Roan Plateau may be ending.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper — along with U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell,
other government officials, and representatives from environmental
groups and the energy industry — are set to make an announcement at 1
p.m. MST Friday regarding what's being called "a major development"
regarding the Western Slope landmark. Also on hand Friday for the announcement will be U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colorado, and Neil Kornze, the director of the federal Bureau of Land Management
(BLM), which in 2008 auctioned off thousands of acres of mineral rights
leases allowing drilling on the federally managed areas of the plateau
and around its base...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Roan Plateau: Officials to announce 'major development' in drilling dispute
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Federal Lands
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