A federal judge in Utah has rejected the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) approval of a natural gas drilling program in the Uintah Basin, saying the environmental review was insufficient given that thousands of wells were potentially going to be drilled under the plan.
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BLM Final EIS Covers Plans for 5,750 New Wells on Public Lands in Uintah Basin
A final environmental impact statement (FEIS) was released for public comment last Thursday that would allow oil/natural gas drilling on up to nearly 120,000 acres of U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM)-managed lands in two counties in northern Utah in the Uintah Basin. BLM noted that mitigation will be a critical part of any final decision on the sizable project.
June 27, 2016
Report: Methane Emissions at ‘High Levels’ in Uintah Basin
Concerned groups like the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) are raising new greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions concerns related to the North American natural gas production boom, citing a new paper on methane leakage in Utah’s Uintah Basin released Monday by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and University of Colorado.
August 6, 2013
Utah Gas Project Undergoes Public Scrutiny
The public has a chance to comment through mid-October about a relaunched natural gas project to be built in Uintah County, UT, according to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) field office in Vernal, UT.
October 1, 2009
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