It had a sentence that we found interesting:
Though the plateau is already being drilled from nearby private lands and the BLM’s plan was highly restrictive, conservationists made the land mass their “symbolic” line in the sand, Congressman Mark Udall, D-Colo., said in August.
We found a copy of the original article that this quote referred to. It was titled "Udall vows to keep up fight over Roan drilling."
Udall, who sponsored an amendment to the 2007 energy bill barring the Bureau of Land Management from leasing parcels atop the Roan, said if the measure fails to make the final version of the bill, he and Congressman John Salazar, D-Colo., will continue to fight to halt development...
“I think at heart of our point of view is we’re not going to stop,” Udall said. “We’re not going to quit. We’re not going to give up.
“We think this is the right thing to do, and we’ll look for other ways to keep that 50 percent of the top of the Roan that’s public lands off limits to surface occupancy.”
One of the more interesting lines in that older article was an apparent proposal by Mark Udall to open up American coastal waters to drilling:
There’s so much other area in which we can drill and produce additional fuels to do our part,” Udall said of energy independence.
He said the United States needs to look outside Colorado — to developing coastal areas or renewable energy sources — to fuel domestic energy needs.
We wonder if Mark Udall's Sierra Club contributors have seen this. We'd bet not.
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