Powder River Basin Play In Converse County, Wyoming, Blocked By Federal Judge -- September 13, 2024

Locator: 48585PRB. 

Converse County, Wyoming -- The Powder River Basin play is tracked here. 

At that site, note:

September 16, 2018: The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has given final approval of the environmental impact statement on a 3,500-gas well project proposed by Jonah Energy in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. 

Now, today, it is being reported that a 5,000 well project within a 1.5-million-acre play in Converse County, Wyoming, previously approved by BLM, has been blocked by a federal judge on environmental concerns.

Link here. 

The agency [the BLM] had approved developing up to 5,000 new oil and natural gas wells within a 1.5 million-acre area in Converse County, Wyoming, over a decade. 

The project is backed by energy companies including Devon Energy and Continental Resources. 

Two environmental groups, the Powder River Basin Council and Western Watersheds Project, sued in 2022, calling the project a "capstone" of efforts by the Trump administration to relieve the fossil fuel industry from environmental safeguards.