DISTRICT COURT AFFIRMS BLM ISSUANCE OF LEASES AND APPROVAL OF APDS IN MONTANA CBM PROJECT

摘要

Northern Plains Resource Council (NPRC) brought an action under the Administrative Procedure Act in the U.S. District Court seeking to enjoin the issuance of oil and gas leases and applications for permits to drill coalbed methane (CBM) in the Tongue River Coalbed Methane Project without first preparing a supplemental environmental impact statement (EIS) and amending the existing resource management plan (RMP). In Northern Plains Resource Council, Inc. v. U.S. Bureau of Land Management, 298 F. Supp. 2d 1017 (D. Mont. 2003), the district court denied NPRC's request for injunction.