Environmental groups worry that drilling beneath the refuge could contaminate groundwater or the Green River. Hydraulic fracturing could also pollute the wells that supply water to the hatchery, said the Center's #southwest regional program director.
“It’s a wildly irresponsible proposal.”
@sltrib.com5,200 acres of the 12,000-acre Ouray National Wildlife Refuge, which includes ~16 miles of the Green River, could be opened to oil and gas leases.
A director at The Center for Biological Diversity said the decision "puts the interests of oil and gas corporations above just about everything else."
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Trump officials eye expanded oil and gas leasing beneath a Utah wildlife refuge. Critics call it ‘wildly irresponsible.’
The Trump administration is considering opening a vast swath of a wildlife refuge near Vernal to expanded oil and gas leasing. Critics call it ‘wildly irresponsible.’