Labor's love of outdoors (concerning oil and gas leasing in Wyoming)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2006/11/14/news/wyoming/d60fde738d97dbba87257226000e6d84.txt


Labor's love of outdoors

By JEFF GEARINO
Southwest Wyoming bureau Tuesday, November 14, 2006


ROCK SPRINGS -- Conservation groups have proposed withdrawing all of remote Adobe Town in southern Wyoming from oil and gas leasing to protect the area.

Blue-collar hunters and sportsmen endorsed that proposal Monday in a loose "blue-green" alliance aimed at protecting hunting and fishing resources from intense energy development in the region.


Unusual rock formations are part of the landscape at Adobe Town in southern Wyoming. Some people want to protect the area from energy development. Photo by Paul Ng, Star-Tribune correspondent.

For the second time in Wyoming State AFL-CIO history, the 18,000-member union has sent a formal protest to the Bureau of Land Management concerning oil and gas leasing in Wyoming.

Union members say they share concerns with conservationists about the level and pace of oil and gas and coal-bed methane development that could occur in the controversial Adobe Town area of Sweetwater County.

FULL story at link above.