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DENVER—Negotiations between environmentalists and federal officials over drilling on Colorado’s Roan Plateau are off.
A court order released Thursday said talks have reached an impasse, leaving it to Judge Marcia Krieger to rule in the case.
Krieger will decide whether or not the Bureau of Land Management adequately analyzed the potential impact of drilling at the Roan Plateau.
Federal officials say the area holds an estimated 9 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, enough to heat millions of homes for several years. Environmentalists say that the majority of the 5 million acres of federal land already leased for energy development in Colorado hasn’t even been developed yet.
