No Drilling Plan in Colorado抯 Vermillion Basin Criticized

摘要

An advisory group to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is blasting plans to prohibit natural gas and oil drilling n the Vermillion Basin northwest of Craig, CO. The Northwest Resource Advisory Council called on BLM not to issue a final decision that would reverse earlier approvals to allow drilling there. Prohibiting future drilling gnores BLM抯 previous preference for a locally generated compromise to allow drilling that disturbs only 1% of the basin at a time, the council noted.