The Department of Interior stopped oil drilling in sixty out of seventy seven drilling sites located in Utah. The seventy seven sites cover around 100000 acres of land in eastern and southern Utah. Drilling for oil in these spots has a potential of harming the wildlife in the area where they are drilling and had to be stopped. Conservation groups had sued the companies in charge and hope that they will soon stop drilling in all of the seventy seven areas.
I think that it is good that the new Obama administration is trying to do things to save the environment and the wildlife in it by undoing things that where put in place through the Bush administration. Also if there is no reason to drill for oil we should not do it because it takes a lot of land to do it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/science/earth/09leases.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
John M. Broder
October 8, 2009
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