Regulators Strike Creative Deal on Utah's Uinta Basin Drilling Program

摘要

Federal land managers usually consider two serious approaches for permitting natural gas development on public lands in the Rocky Mountain West - one basically granting a company free rein to drill within their leases and another requiring a significant scale-back to please conservationists. With a natural gas drilling program planned in northeastern Utah, however, the Bureau of Land Management exhausted a plan A, B, C, D and E before reaching its final Plan F last week.