WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management issued the following press release:
DOLORES, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management and the Southern Ute Indian Tribe are formally initiating a planning process to guide and analyze the future development of tribal trust oil and gas resources within a 110,00-acre planning area located within the Southern Ute Indian Reservation.The anticipated future development would be in the Mancos Shale Formation, an underground rock layer approximately 7,000 feet beneath the surface within the San Juan Basin region.
To initiate the planning process, the BLM and Southern Ute Indian Tribe will host an in‑person public scoping meeting from 6 to 8:30 p....