Rockies targeted for oil drilling - Environmentalists decry BLM move to redo rules

Denver Post ^ | 08/08/03 | Mike Soraghan

[blondatheart]

More Business for where I work. I work for an Oil Field supply store in the San Juan Basin area. We have already been busy this year, but if this goes through, it will be awesome!!! Go Prez Bush!!!

[bedolido]

Ping!

[thackney]

Please Oh Please ping

[Sangria]

I live in Texas and remember the days we could drive to the country and see oil wells pumping all over the place. What a beautiful sight. The skyscrapers were full of oil companies and oil-related businesses, and everybody I knew worked for an oil company. Brint it on, Dubya!

[vollmond]

Time to choose: Alaska or the Rockies.

[babyface00]

I'm no expert, but I did look into the mechanics of NG drilling. It doesn't seem all that environmentally hazardous - certainly not in the long term.

It's not like strip mining where vast tracks of land are sliced away - I think it takes something like a portion of an acre for the drilling site, then that is reduced once the well is established.

[BOBTHENAILER]

"Not only are they speeding things up, they're weakening environmental protections," said Sharon Buccino of the Natural Resources Defense Council. "It exposes their lack of interest in protecting the environment."

Sharon then went on to say, "We don't care if everyone's heating/cooling bills double or triple because of shortages. That is not our problem."

Parachute Mayor John Loschke, however, doesn't consider expediting energy development a problem. "The (national) economy and the local economy need these jobs," Loschke said. "As long as the companies are responsible in production efforts, then go get it, boys."

My sentiments exactly as well as your comments about Texas.

ENERGY IS THE LIFEBLOOD OF THIS COUNTRY, and if we don't get it here, we will spend the REAL lifeblood of our children protecting middle east sources.

[trebb]

Environmentalists say the directives show that Bush's pledge to do "environmentally responsible" energy development is an empty one.

To them, the only good energy development is NO energy development.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.

[MD_Willington_1976]

they could abide by the restrictions by using technologies such as horizontal drilling to get the gas without disturbing wildlife.

they do this already...especially if a land owner is too ignorant to let them set up a vertical rig on their land...the company just drills from the neighbours property and the land owner collects a royalty check...happens all the time in Alberta where I used to work (as a "juggie", "Jughound", or "doodlebug" whatever they call it now) for Geco-Prakla, a company owned by Schlumberger.

[nothingnew]

As a Durangoan in Southwest CO, I welcome this news.

And babyface, yes, the impact of NG wells is minimal. They're all over the place here, and one hardly notices them.

FMCDH

[AdamSelene235]

Stupid Marxists.

If you want to protect the environment then go buy some of it.

[ServesURight]

Go for it Bush! Don't pander to the eco-Nazis, they're not gonna vote for you anyway even if you declare the entire country off-limits to development and force everyone to grow their own food and sleep in dimly-lit caves.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The 18 months or so they spent at Gitmo will probably add at least 10 years to their lives.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Sorry wrong topic.

[blondatheart]

You are only 45 minutes from here. I welcome any good new that deals with the oil field. It is the industry to be in right now.

[Semper Paratus]

"Thars OIL in dem darn hills"

[nothingnew]

You in Farmington or one it's burb's? I'm thinking of moving to Aztec. Whadd'ya think?

FMCDH

[blondatheart]

I work in Farmington, but live in Flora Vista. It is nice and quite out there. Come on down!!! Aztec is ok. My daughter goes to school in Aztec and I am impressed with the schools there.