The framework for a settlement designed to end years of litigation over oil and gas operations on the Roan Plateau in western Colorado is becoming clearer.
Exact terms and details of the settlement proposal aren’t being shared by the oil and gas companies involved and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, said state Rep. Bob Rankin, R-Carbondale.
But, he said, the general concept of the agreement calls for about half of the federal oil and gas leases issued in 2008 to be canceled, or vacated, by…
The framework for a settlement designed to end years of litigation over oil and gas operations on the Roan Plateau in western Colorado is becoming clearer.
Exact terms and details of the settlement proposal aren’t being shared by the oil and gas companies involved and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, said state Rep. Bob Rankin, R-Carbondale.
But, he said, the general concept of the agreement calls for about half of the federal oil and gas leases issued in 2008 to be canceled, or vacated, by…