The Daily Sentinel
August 12, 2010, The Daily Sentinel

The announcement this week that the state of Colorado has reached agreements with 10 major energy companies operating in the Piceance Basin to protect wildlife habitat on more than 355,000 acres of western Colorado’s landscape is a good indication that gas drilling and wildlife protection aren’t incompatible, and that state gas regulations aren’t halting drilling. The agreements were negotiated over the past 18 months, with the most recent one involving 150,000 acres controlled by ExxonMobil Corp. Companies that consult with the Colorado Division of Wildlife to produce wildlife mitigation plans for broad resource areas before drilling begins are subject to a streamlined permitting process for new wells....

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