Wednesday, September 09, 2009
By Jessica Dyer
Journal Staff Writer
"A Texas oil company wants to expedite the drilling approval process for 24 wells it has proposed in northern New Mexico's Rio Chama watershed, but Rio Arriba County officials are balking at that idea.
In a motion filed Aug. 31 by Santa Fe attorney J. Scott Hall, Fort Worth-based Approach Operating requested that the New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission order conditional approval of its pending applications for permits to drill in an area near Tierra Amarilla.
The commission was tentatively scheduled to hear the motion — that latest salvo in a long fight over drilling plans by Approach in Rio Arriba — at its regular meeting today, but the matter has been postponed until the commission meets again on Oct. 7.
Adan Trujillo, the lawyer representing Rio Arriba County, objected to Approach's motion in a Sept. 2 response filed with the commission.
Approach has leased the mineral rights to approximately 90,000 acres of land in the northeastern part of the county where little to no oil has previously been found." More>>>>
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