Colorado’s Vermillion Basin Drilling to Be Off Limits

摘要

More than 242,000 acres in the Vermillion Basin region of northwestern Colorado, considered to hold huge amounts of natural gas, would be off limits to drillers under a proposed Resource Management Plan (RMP), the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said last week. The basin, which is prized for its remoteness and wilder- ness characteristics, is one of the larger contiguous blocks of public land in northwestern Colorado not currently leased for potential gas and oil development.