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Colorado Plateau Drilling Plan

A number of outdoors groups and politicians protest a Bureau of Land Management decision to open the prized Roan Plateau for gas drilling.

A stretch of Colorado high plateau, prized by recreationists, may soon be open to gas drilling. The gas industry says Congress intended the oil and gas-rich Roan Plateau to be drilled. But many Colorado residents, and some elected officials, want the federal plan reviewed. Living on Earth’s Ingrid Lobet reports.