BLM extends comment period for Monument Butte gas project draft EIS

The US Bureau of Land Management will provide an additional 30 days for public comments on the draft environmental impact statement for Newfield Exploration Co.’s proposed Monument Butte natural gas project in eastern Utah.

Nick Snow

Feb. 3, 2014

Comments on the proposal to drill as many as 5,750 wells over 16 years in an existing oil and gas producing area in Duchesne and Uintah counties now will be accepted until Mar. 5, BLM’s Vernal, Utah, field office said on Jan. 31.

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Nick Snow

NICK SNOW covered oil and gas in Washington for more than 30 years. He worked in several capacities for The Oil Daily and was founding editor of Petroleum Finance Week before joining OGJ as its Washington correspondent in September 2005 and becoming its full-time Washington editor in October 2007. He retired from OGJ in January 2020.