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Thread #112345   Message #2376018
Posted By: katlaughing
28-Jun-08 - 12:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: Bushwhacking the environment of the West
Subject: RE: BS: Bushwhacking the environment of the West
I know Joe allows what will fit on his GIANT Big Screen TV/Monitor. That's why I posted the whole thing. IF one is going to edit out a bunch of it, at least leave something which is coherent. THIS should not have been edited out, in order to explain the last bit which was left in:

In the meantime, BLM is issuing a growing number of categorical exclusions, or CXs, for drilling wells.

The special drilling exclusions, which enable a company to avoid doing an environmental assessment, were created under the 2005 Energy Policy Act.

An exclusion can be granted to a drilling operation that disturbs less than 5 acres, is on a site were drilling has occurred in the past five years, or is a field that has had an environmental impact study in the past five years.

From August 2005 to September 2007, a total of 1,632 exclusions were issued in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico and Utah, according to the Wilderness Society.


The rest will follow.