Administration accused of changing drilling rule

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WASHINGTON -- The Sierra Club alleged in a lawsuit today that the Bush administration quietly changed a rule so oil and gas producers could more easily drill under national parks from outside their boundaries.

The environmental group filed the suit in D.C. District Court asking for an immediate injunction to reverse the alleged rule change, which it said was done without public input. It also asks that the drilling be stopped.
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"The Bush administration bent over backward to help its friends in the oil and gas industry, even when the facts showed that its policy would harm national parks," said Brandt Mannchen, chairman of the Sierra Club's Lone Star chapter.

Oil and gas producers can drill at an angle to reach privately owned minerals from private land adjacent to a park.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2906382

As I understand it, if I own 200 acres of land on top of oil, they could buy a half-acre abutting my property, set their drill at a sharp angle, and suck out my oil. Is that not correct? Fuckers.

[dweller]

1. ah, the old slant drill technique

worked for the Kuwaitees, no?

dp

[DS1]

3. Depends who you ask?

Either way, it worked for Carlyle

[dweller]

4. Funny, doesn't it always

work that way?

i guess *moron plays by the book.
dp

[mikehiggins]

2. Familiar stuff

I recall Saddam accused the Kuwaitis of slant drilling into Iraq's oil fields, using that as a justification for invading their neighbor.

[struggle4progress]

5. kick

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