TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - A federal judge has overturned a decision by the U.S. Forest Service to allow oil and gas drilling in an environmentally sensitive area near the Au Sable River in Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula.
U.S. District Judge David Lawson of Detroit ruled Thursday the agency had acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” in 2005 [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
US judge blocks gas drilling in Mason Tract area
July 15, 2008 – 9:27 am