Environmental Groups Sue To Stop Project in Wilderness Area - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction

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A coalition of conservation groups has filed suit with the U.S. District Court in Denver to keep a proposed natural-gas pipeline out of three roadless areas on national forest land near the town of Silt, Colo. Coalition leaders say a 100-ft-wide construction corridor for the Bull Mountain pipeline violates the 2001 federal Roadless Rule, which limits road-building on designated public lands, and say the suit could serve as a national test case for the rule. The U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management approved the 25.5-mile pipeline route in January. It would cross the 120,000-acre Clear Fork Divide roadless area, which connects the Grand and Battlement mesas to the West Elk Mountains. The proposed route would follow a 1980s-era pipeline ...

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