New Mexico fights US federal land decision

摘要

Washington-New Mexico Gov Bill Richardson late Jan 24 vowed to battle in court a plan by the US Bureau of Land Management to open a fraction of the state's Otero Mesa to drilling.BLM Jan 24 formally denied the state's appeal of the plan to allow as many as 141 exploratory wells and 84 producing wells to be drilled in the 105,000-acre Otero Mesa grassland.