BILLINGS, Mont. - The Bush administration yesterday approved a plan that could allow more than 18,000 natural gas wells to be drilled in southeastern Montana over the next two decades.
The decision by C. Stephen Allred, assistant secretary for land and minerals management at the Department of Interior, would allow companies to proceed with plans to drill on more than 1.5 million acres of federal land in Montana's remote Powder River Basin.
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