EPA slams new plan for gas field near Pinedale, WY
Wow, if Bush’s EPA doesn’t like it, it must have a really terrible environmental impact.
EPA slams new plan for Sublette gas field. Watchdog agency rips BLM proposal, says past study underestimated pollution by factor of 5. By Cory Hatch, Jackson Hole News and Guide
“The EPA letter comes in response to the Bureau of Land Management’s proposal for two options to develop 4,399 new wells on 12,278 acres of the Pinedale Anticline, late last year. The anticline is a tight-sands gas reserve beneath the Pinedale Mesa, located about 70 miles southeast of Jackson.
The windswept mesa is winter range to mule deer that summer as far away as Snow King Mountain and rises on a migration route for antelope that summer in Grand Teton National Park.”

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Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
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Fracking is the issue with groundwater… another forgotten impact of O&G. Environmentally persistent chemicals injected into the ground to open up fissures that may or may not lead to the drinking water sources. Yeah, THAT’s a good idea. It’s amazing to look with hindsite at what was said would be the environmental impacts of O&G. It’s laughable really. Somehow “we told you so” just doesn’t cut it.