Happy New Year, Montana! Don't Drink the Water!

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Happy New Year, Montana! Don't Drink the Water!

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/1/1/171345/3570/118/679240

Fri Jan 02, 2009 at 02:15:05 PM PST
More coal in our collective stocking from the Bush administration, literally.

BILLINGS, Mont.—The Bush administration has approved a plan that could allow more than 18,000 natural gas wells to be drilled in southeastern Montana over the next two decades.

The decision by C. Stephen Allred, assistant secretary for land and minerals management at the Department of Interior, would allow companies to proceed with plans to drill on more than 1.5 million acres of federal land in Montana's remote Powder River Basin....

Tuesday's approval of the Montana development plan followed a three year delay caused by drilling opponents. Conservation groups and the Northern Cheyenne tribe won a court order temporarily blocking drilling in 2005, over worries it could foul water supplies and harm wildlife.