More than a year after becoming the only local jurisdiction in New Mexico to ban all oil and natural gas activity, Mora County’s three-member elected commission voted last Tuesday against repealing the ban it passed in April 2013. However, an industry representative predicts that the ban will be repealed next year.
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More Legal Action on New Mexico County Drill Ban
An oil/gas western field operations unit of Royal Dutch Shell PLC recently filed a lawsuit in federal court in New Mexico challenging a drilling ban imposed last year by officials in Mora County. The action dovetails with a similar lawsuit filed in November by the Independent Petroleum Association of New Mexico (IPANM) and several landowners (see Shale Daily, Nov. 19, 2013).
January 21, 2014
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