The Bureau of Land Management reaffirmed 51 Trump-era oil and gas leases in southeastern Utah, though the area hasn't been productive in the past.
Labyrinth Canyon in southeastern Utah is renowned for its majestic red rock cliffs carved by the Green River — so much so that Congress decided the area merited a wilderness designation in 2019., the Bureau of Land Management leased land within the soon-to-be Labyrinth Canyon Wilderness Area for a helium drilling project. Though wilderness designations bar new development, preexisting leases are grandfathered in.
“This decision doubles down on one of the most controversial oil and gas leases issued during the Trump era,” said Landon Newell, a staff attorney for the environmental nonprofit Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. “As technology develops and continues to become more efficient,” she said, “there are areas that may not have seen any development in the past that may have development in the future with the new technology.”
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