Bush Greenwatch: Western Wilderness sacrificed to oil and gas.

[madfloridian]

http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/

This site has daily activism updates. It is getting scary what they are doing to our environment.

[enough]

1. 39 minutes of oil

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Also slated by BLM for oil and gas development is the pristine Jack Morrow Hills area of southwest Wyoming. Under BLM's proposal, this 622,000-acre area, which contains seven wilderness study areas, the largest migratory game herd in the lower 48 states (50,000 pronghorn antelope) <2>, Mormon pioneer trails, and numerous American Indian holy sites <3>, would be laced with 205 oil and gas wells and 50 exploratory coalbed methane wells. And, under some studies cited by BLM, up to 1,077 natural gas wells, and 543 coalbed methane wells may be drilled in the area.

But even if all of the technically recoverable oil and gas in the Jack Morrow Hills were extracted, it would only provide the U.S. with 9 weeks of natural gas and 39 minutes of oil. <4>

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