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To: GC who wrote (318)	4/30/2008 12:32:32 PM
From: GC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 337

************Rubber stamp falls for industry Friday, August 24, 2007 2:05 AM MDT Editor: As was reported in the Casper Star-Tribune Aug. 15, a neighbor and I had driven 240 miles to attend the Aug. 14 hearing of the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. The legal notice in our local newspaper had said "any interested party is entitled to appear ? and be heard.?" We had already filed a written protest to the proposed application three days prior to the hearing, as per their rules. We were not allowed to address the commission. I had wanted to ask the commission to please start thinking a little harder about where this energy exploration is taking place before they just automatically grant a permit. Surely they can tell by now that this kind of industry does not belong in or around residential areas. The examples are becoming numerous: -- The gas well blowout and subsequent water and soil contamination, which hasn't begun to be cleaned up -- and now they're asking to be allowed to do more drilling in the same area, on Line Creek in Clark. -- A well blowout in Pavillion and water wells ruined. -- All the coal-bed methane water damage and waste going on in the Powder River Basin. -- Oil oozing to the surface around Deaver. And the list goes on. It's not just people that are being affected. Our wildlife is being edged out of its living spaces, too, as the Bureau of Land Management is more than happy to let energy companies drill and do seismic exploration all over public lands. It's great that the state is supposedly making lots of money and the economy is doing so well because of this industry. But please be careful you're not hurting the very people this influx of money is supposed to help: the citizens of Wyoming. This blind race to find more gas, oil, CBM, coal, all of it, just for more money, is wrong. After these companies have sucked this land dry and left with all their billions, the citizens who are left have still got to live here and try to carry on in the wake of all the damage that's been left behind. Surely they can find a balance somewhere, so that more Wyoming citizens don't keep coming up the losers in this race. I'm not asking that they never grant another permit ever again, but they don't have to say "yes" to every single one. If someone applied to drill in downtown Casper, would they grant them a permit? CHRISTINA DENNEY, Clark