House reconciliation bill would ban drilling in parts of New Mexico and Colorado

 

Some areas of New Mexico and Colorado would be off limits to oil and gas drilling as part of the huge budget reconciliation bill being jammed through Congress by Democrats.

New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon would be one site where new oil and gas development would not be allowed. The canyon is a National Park Service site featuring artifacts from the 1,000-year-old center of Puebloan culture.

If approved, the bill would also ban oil and gas development in the Thompson Divide, a nearly 200,000 swatch of White River National forest in west-central Colorado reported Colorado Newsline.

 

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