Posted on 06/14/2007 7:23:24 PM PDT by george76
Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar said Wednesday he wants another look at drilling on the Roan Plateau but stopped short of saying he’d press the Senate to prevent it.
“I would hope that there would be another opportunity to re-examine oil and gas on top of the Roan Plateau,” ...
Salazar’s brother, Rep. John Salazar, D-Colo., is seeking this week to have the House include a provision banning spending on Roan leasing during the 2008 fiscal year in an Interior Department appropriations measure...
Drilling proponents said John Salazar might be “caving in to pressure from out-of-state special interests.”
Most of the comments against drilling... came from outside Colorado...
Of the 74,906 comments the agency received ... 73,166 were form letters.
Only 7 percent of all comments came from Colorado residents...
Under the plan, a maximum of 1 percent of the surface area of the top, about 350 acres, can be disturbed at any one time...
(Excerpt) Read more at gjsentinel.com ...
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Surprising that the commie Salazar twins got anything done this week. I would have thought that they were too busy trying to sell out the US.
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