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Bureau of Land Management authorizes year-round drilling in Converse County, tribes opposed
January 6, 2021
CONVERSE COUNTY, WYO. After a seven-year environmental analysis, the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management has given authorization for year-round oil and gas drilling in Converse County, Wyoming.
The Converse County Oil and Gas Project allows for the development of up to 5,000 new oil and natural gas wells inside a 1.5 million-acre project area. This project is expected to generate roughly 8,000 jobs and $18 to $28 billion in federal revenues.
“Projects like this strengthen the energy independence of the United States while creating jobs and fostering economic development,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Casey Hammond.
The plans involve the companies SG Interests and Gunnison Energy.
In 2019, a judge ruled that the Trump administration did not adequately examine the indirect environmental impact of burning oil and gas and its effect on the local deer and elk populations.
In a separate case involving drilling in western Colorado, the Bureau of Land Management agreed to do additional environmental analysis of oil and gas leases issued on more than 70 square miles (180 square kilometers) of land before any drilling can proceed.
The agreement, reached while settling a lawsuit from conservation groups, applies to 53 leases in Mesa and Garfield counties that were offered in 2016 and 2017, the Sentinel reported. The lawsuit challenged the land agency’s failure to conduct site-specific environmental reviews in approving the leases.
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GRAND JUNCTION – The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has approved for a second time two drilling projects in Colorado after considering a court-ordered greenhouse gas assessment of the development’s environmental impacts.
The two upper North Fork Valley drilling projects will total up to 226 wells and result in up to 17.26 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions over a 30-year period,
The Daily Sentinel reported Wednesday.