Whose Rules Rule on Otero Mesa?. Laura Paskus.
by Paskus, Laura; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 70Environment. Publisher: High Country News, 2005ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): New Mexico | Oil and gas leases | Public lands | State rights | United States Bureau of Land ManagementDDC classification: 050 Summary: "New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, D, knows who his friends are. In 2003, speaking before the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, he told the assembled governors and industry bigwigs that they built his state's budget surplus. And since then, New Mexico's coffers have continued to fill: Last year [2004], the State Land Office collected a record $32.7 million in lease sales and $236.3 million in royalties from oil and gas companies alone. But that cash can come with controversy. Seven years ago [1998], the U.S. Bureau of Land Management closed Otero Mesa in southern New Mexico to drilling and began updating its management plan. While the agency suspended existing oil and gas leases, an alliance of environmentalists, ranchers and property-rights advocates sought to keep the mesa off-limits to development. And it was in that dusty stretch of desert that Richardson drew a line, and tried to halt development on federal property that oil and gas companies are itching to explore." (HIGH COUNTRY NEWS) This article discusses the battle between New Mexico and "the federal government over the fate of 2.1 million acres of Chihuahuan desert--and over who writes the rules for oil and gas development on public lands."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Whose Rules Rule on Otero Mesa?, March 7, 2005; pp. 12.
"New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, D, knows who his friends are. In 2003, speaking before the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, he told the assembled governors and industry bigwigs that they built his state's budget surplus. And since then, New Mexico's coffers have continued to fill: Last year [2004], the State Land Office collected a record $32.7 million in lease sales and $236.3 million in royalties from oil and gas companies alone. But that cash can come with controversy. Seven years ago [1998], the U.S. Bureau of Land Management closed Otero Mesa in southern New Mexico to drilling and began updating its management plan. While the agency suspended existing oil and gas leases, an alliance of environmentalists, ranchers and property-rights advocates sought to keep the mesa off-limits to development. And it was in that dusty stretch of desert that Richardson drew a line, and tried to halt development on federal property that oil and gas companies are itching to explore." (HIGH COUNTRY NEWS) This article discusses the battle between New Mexico and "the federal government over the fate of 2.1 million acres of Chihuahuan desert--and over who writes the rules for oil and gas development on public lands."
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