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John Barrasso: “The proposed changes in onshore potentially hand significant control over oil and gas exploration, development, and…”

On the recordMay 17, 2010
The proposed changes in onshore potentially hand significant control over oil and gas exploration, development, and production to the whims of those that profess--and these are his words--'a nowhere, not ever philosophy to surface disturbance of any kind.'
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John Barrasso
Republican · Wyoming

Editor's note · Context

Barrasso quotes the Wyoming Governor's concerns about onshore policy changes affecting oil and gas control.

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