
Powder River Basin: 10,000-Permit Drilling Battle
From the Casper Star Tribune In the coal-bed methane days, then-engineer Mark Watson would arrive at the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to find boxes stacked with drilling applications and a box of thank-you donuts from the operators. But the volume of applications for permits to drill over the last year — about 10,000 — has eclipsed even the coal-bed

