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Judge: Ban on forest roads applies to oil exploration
Source: Posted: 12-01-2006 at 12:00:24
| Associated Press: A federal judge ruled that a Clinton-era ban on road construction in national forests applies to hundreds of oil and gas leases sold by the Bush administration. U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Laporte's ruling Wednesday means that holders of more than 300 leases that permit oil and gas exploration in national forests cannot build roads to access those areas. Laporte's order follows her September ruling that reinstated the 2001 "Roadless Rule" that prohibits logging, ... |
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