NYT: Sierra Club Fights Drilling Under Parks

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (AP) - The Sierra Club filed a lawsuit on Wednesday contending that the Bush administration had 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 here, asking for an immediate injunction to reverse the rule change, which it said was done without public input. It also asks that the drilling be stopped. The lawsuit names Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton and Fran Mainella, the director of the National Park Service, as defendants.

The Park Service denied the allegation. "That is so untrue,'' said Carol McCoy, a Park Service spokeswoman based in Denver. "There has been no change from the Bush administration, from the Clinton administration. Nothing has been done outside the public process."

The Sierra Club contended that a rule change affects 14 national parks that have privately owned minerals beneath them.

Oil and gas producers can drill at an angle to reach privately owned minerals from private land adjacent to a park.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/politics/18sierra.html?oref=login

[NVMojo]

1. that was done to Iraq via Kuwait and Viet Nam via under the ocean

same assholes, same technique, different victims.