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The state of Colorado filed one of the 17,000 protests against the Bureau of Land Management’s plan to lease the Roan Plateau for drilling next month. “The BLM has rejected the state’s proposals, and we have no choice but to object to the BLM’s leasing plan,” Harris Sherman, executive director of the state Department of Natural Resources, wrote in the formal protest, filed Wednesday.
The plateau, northwest of Rifle, holds as much as 9 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, but it also is rich in wildlife and scenic beauty. A coalition of 10 environmental groups has filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking an injunction to block the lease sale, saying the BLM’s plan does not go far enough in protecting the plateau.
