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Written by JEFF GEARINO, Casper Star-Tribune
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Monday, 07 January 2008 |
After years of exploratory drilling projects and numerous environmental
studies, the rapidly developing coal-bed methane play in southern and
southwest Wyoming could finally arrive in full bloom in 2008, according
to industry officials.
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Written by JOE HANEL, Durango Herald
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Monday, 07 January 2008 |
No one has ever rowed a boat across Stillwater Reservoir. Or caught a
fish at Fourteenmile Reservoir. Or stood on the beach of Roan Creek
Reservoir.
These are all imaginary lakes. They exist only in the minds of oil company executives and
attorneys.
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Written by DAN BERMAN, Greenwire
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Monday, 07 January 2008 |
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The Interior Department proposed major changes last week to its
National Environmental Policy Act regulations, potentially formalizing
the use of adaptive management and adopting a limited definition of
cumulative effects.
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Written by BOBBY MAGILL, The Daily Sentinel
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Saturday, 05 January 2008 |
After the thumper trucks set
out across the eastern Utah canyon country, conducting seismic tests
looking for oil and gas deposits, signs of change appear in the desert
not often seen by the tourists that flock to the region’s trails and
national parks.
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Written by APRIL REESE, Land Letter
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
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A recent decision by the Bureau of Land Management that clears the way
for energy companies to drill up to 60 new natural gas wells near
Utah's White River has drawn the wrath of environmental groups and
outfitters, which contend the project will damage the ecosystem and
destroy the quiet and solitude of the river corridor.
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Written by ERYN GABLE, Land Letter
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
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The U.S. Forest Service is starting work on rules for managing more
than 4 million acres of roadless areas in the national forests of
Colorado.
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Written by DAN BERMAN, Land Letter
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
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Phosphate mining and geothermal projects could win big under the Bush
administration's new plan to carve up the 9.3 million acres of roadless national
forests in Idaho.
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Written by JOE HANEL, The Durango Herald
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Wednesday, 02 January 2008 |
The Colorado River Compact binds all parts of the state together in a
struggle for water against the downstream states - California, Arizona
and Nevada.
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Written by MIKE STARK, Billings Gazette
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Wednesday, 02 January 2008 |
Three years after Yellowstone National Park was taken off an
international list of threatened places, officials there continue to
address issues that put it on the list in 1995.
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Written by KIRK JOHNSON, New York Times
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Wednesday, 02 January 2008 |
Sheltered for many years by federal species protection law, the gray
wolves of the West are about to step out onto the high wire of life in
the real world, when their status as endangered animals formally comes
to an end early this year.
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Written by DAN BERMAN, Greenwire
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Monday, 31 December 2007 |
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The Bureau of Land Management moved ahead yesterday with its push for
commercial oil shale development, despite congressional concerns about
the agency's pace.
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Written by NATALIE BARTLEY, Idaho Statesman
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Monday, 31 December 2007 |
Recognizing the role that healthy natural resources play in summer and
winter recreation, ski resorts across the nation are strengthening
their environmental stewardship.
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Written by FELICITY BARRINGER AND WILLIAM YARDLEY, New York Times
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Sunday, 30 December 2007 |
n the San Juan National Forest here, an iron rod gate is the last
barrier to the Weminuche Wilderness, a mountain redoubt above 10,000
feet where wheels are not allowed.
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Written by JUDITH KOHLER, Associated Press
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Friday, 21 December 2007 |
Gov. Bill Ritter says he asked federal land
managers to expand areas of the Roan Plateau that would be off-limits
to direct natural gas drilling, calling the western Colorado landmark
"a very special place."
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Written by GARGI CHAKRABARTY, Rocky Mountain News
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
Gov. Bill Ritter will advocate "maximum economic benefit and minimum
environmental impact" in the federal gas drilling plan for the Roan
Plateau in comments to be announced today.
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Written by APRIL REESE, Land Letter
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
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Northern Arizona communities facing potential water shortages in the
next few decades are seeking authorization for a feasibility study for
several supply projects, including a controversial pipeline from Lake
Powell.
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Written by Associated Press
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Wednesday, 19 December 2007 |
A national wildlife refuge in the San Luis
Valley should be off-limits to energy development, say environmental
groups and residents opposed to a Canandian company's plans to drill
for natural gas.
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Written by JENNY MANDEL, Greenwire
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007 |
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An independent report
commissioned by the Interior Department calls for scores of changes in
federal collection and auditing of billions of dollars of oil and gas
royalties.
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Written by Greenwire
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007 |
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The Bush administration will ask today for an independent review of the
recovery plan for the northern spotted owl, after scientists and U.S.
legislators said the plan was subject to political interference.
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Written by Greenwire
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007 |
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Grazing is allowable on Medicine Bow National Forest land in Wyoming
despite environmental group opposition, a federal appeals court ruled
yesterday.
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