19-12-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com

Groups sue to block helium drilling project inside Utah wilderness

Several environmental groups have gone to court seeking to block the Trump administration from authorizing a helium drilling project inside newly designated wilderness in southern Utah.Just weeks before Congress established the Labyrinth Canyon Wilderness as part of a larger public lands bill for Emery County, the Bureau of Land Management issued leases on 1,400 acres to a company called Twin Bridges Resources, then fast-tracked an analysis of the Denver firm’s drilling program.“It&r
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