EIS needed for proposed Spaulding Peak drilling?

EPA requests more study on Spaulding Peak drilling

Calling this a "precedent-setting industrial use of national forest lands unlike any other activity on the Grand Mesa National Forest,” the director of the Office of Ecosystems Protection and Remediation in Denver says an EIS is necessary. Naturally, company officials who want to drill in the region disagree. The Forest Service will decide whether to issue a permit to Gunnison Energy Corp. and allow drilling in the region.

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