PRE-DECISION INPUT — THAT'S WHAT NEPA'S FOR
The Pinedale saga continues — Matthew Anderson of the BLM joins the PAWG dilemma
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BLM lets down its Wyoming guard
EDITORIAL, DENVER POST, 09/07/06
As natural gas drilling rigs sprouted on the tumbling prairie near Pinedale, Wyo., officials at the local office of the Bureau of Land Management were in an anything-goes state of mind. Though the agency had promised to do so, the BLM neglected to track air pollution and the levels of lake acidification in nearby wilderness areas.
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Neglected vows cited at BLM
BY BLAINE HARDEN, WASHINGTON POST, 09/01/06
The Bureau of Land Management has neglected its public commitments to monitor and limit harm to wildlife and air quality from natural gas drilling in western Wyoming, according to an internal BLM assessment.
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A dilemma of definition? A dilemma of intent?
Is PAWG to be involved in agenda-setting for meetings, to be involved in pre-decision input to the BLM or post-decision input? BLM staffers have asserted that the agenda is the BLM's charge and that decisions are to be made by the BLM and that the group can put forth their input once a process is in play.
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'Mitigation office' aims to offset harm from Wyoming drilling
BY APRIL REESE, LAND LETTER, 08/03/06
Past drilling has disturbed about 4,000 acres in the 30,000-acre complex, shrinking and fragmenting important habitat, and with about 3,100 new wells on the horizon under a plan approved in March by the Bureau of Land Management, officials expect another 14,000 acres of surface disturbance. But this time, land managers are hoping to minimize the damage by mitigating the environmental effects of drilling, primarily by improving or conserving comparable habitat elsewhere in the Upper Green River Basin.
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Natural Gas Boom Impacts Rural Wyoming Town
BY BETTY ANN BOWSER, ONLINE NEWSHOUR, 08/22/06
Every summer, the 1,600 residents of Pinedale, Wyoming, stage a three-day event called the Rendezvous. One of the highlights is a rodeo that celebrates the rich Western cow town heritage that residents, like Chopper and Lyn Grassell, say is changing too fast.
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ROAN PLATEAU IN THE NEWS
Roan Plateau opened to natural gas drilling
BY TODD HARTMAN AND ELLEN MILLER, ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS, 09/08/06
Federal land managers opened the door to drilling in one of Colorado's richest natural gas reserves Thursday, unveiling a compromise proposal that endeavors to reap the mineral riches under the Western Slope's Roan Plateau while protecting its wildlife and environment.
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Drillers decry Roan rules
BY JOANNE KELLEY, ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS, 09/08/06
A long-awaited federal decision that would open the Roan Plateau to natural gas drilling includes compromises that make the land "much less economically attractive," an industry group said Thursday.
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Unhappy hunting grounds
BY BOBBY MAGILL, GRAND JUNCTION DAILY SENTINEL, 08/20/06
The fight to protect the Roan Plateau and Colorado’s roadless areas from energy development has strayed beyond the realm of environmentalists and traditional wilderness advocates.
The “hook and bullet” crowd — hunters, anglers, outfitters and other sportsmen — are now claiming wildland protection as their territory, a development that’s being noticed by the energy industry and politicians all over Colorado and the West.
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