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Published on: 10/7/2002
Last Visited: 7/6/2008
Steve Bloch, SUWA Staff Attorney, 801 486-3161, ext. 16
MASSIVE OIL EXPLORATION PROJECT APPROVED IN UTAH Proposed Wilderness, Wildlife Habitat Threatened by 3,000-Square Mile Project
SALT LAKE CITY Over the objections of the Environmental Protection Agency and tens of thousands of citizens, the federal Bureau of Land Management has approved one of the largest oil and gas exploration projects in Utah history, for one of the largest oil exploration companies in the world.
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SUWA staff attorney Steve Bloch noted that "in January 2002, the BLM's Washington brass ordered the Utah BLM to make oil and gas development their 'Number 1 priority,' and now they are taking that to extremes.