Saturday, October 10, 2009
Environmental Groups Join Battle Over Chief Logan Park Drilling
In June, Logan County Circuit Judge Roger Perry overturned a denial by the state Department of Environmental Protection which blocked drilling permits for nearly three dozen new natural gas wells sought by Houston-based Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. which proposed drilling inside Chief Logan State Park. Requests from environmental groups, the Highlands Conservancy, the Friends of Blackwater, the Sierra Club, and former state parks chief Cordie Hudkins and the state Division of Natural Resources to participate in the ongoing court case have been honored, and the deadline for the ruling to be appealed has been extended to October 19th. DEP officials have promised to appeal to the state Supreme Court, and the Division of Natural Resources vows to block the drilling.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 5:29 PM 
