BLM offers draft for Moneta: font of revenue, pollutants
Draft EIS for 4,250-well project that anticipates $198 million a year in tax revenue is linked to Wyoming’s plan for discharging treated and tainted water into Boysen Reservoir.
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Residents win comment extension on oilfield pollution dump
Thermopolis mayor, whose town drinks from the Bighorn River, also wants to know what’s currently in the water.
Residents fret about oilfield dumping plan for Bighorn River
Big Horn County, the town of Thermopolis and a conservation district want the DEQ to explain to their communities its plan to allow discharges of pollutants into Boysen Reservoir and give them time to respond.
Permit eyes tons of oilfield pollutants for Boysen, Wind River
DEQ would let millions of gallons of tainted water flow into reservoir above the Wind River Canyon, but the agency says water quality will be preserved.
DEQ report: Fracking unlikely culprit in Pavillion
The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality released its final report on the Pavillion investigation Thursday, again concluding it was unlikely that hydraulic fracturing polluted nearby residential water wells in the area.
The study concluded there was no evidence that fluids
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