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  • Driller contests oilfield violation, searches for ways to dispose of wastewater

    Angus M. Thuermer Jr., WyoFile.com|Mar 28, 2024

    The principal operator of the Moneta Divide gas- and oilfield told the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality it isn't exceeding limits for barium and radium in wastewater as regulators maintain. Dallas-based Aethon Energy Operating responded in May to DEQ's letter of violation that said the company had exceeded permit limits for pollutants the company lets flow into Alkali and Badwater creeks in Fremont County. The DEQ earlier this year officially listed those waterways as "impaired,"...

  • Ranch owner in corner-crossing case drops Waypoint 6 trespass claim

    Angus M. Thuermer Jr., WyoFile.com|Jun 8, 2023

    The owner of Elk Mountain Ranch has dropped the last remaining claim in a civil corner-crossing trespass suit — an allegation that a Missouri hunter stepped on his property well away from the contested corners. In papers filed in U.S. District Court on June 1, an attorney for Iron Bar Holdings and Fred Eshelman told U.S. Chief District Judge Scott Skavdahl that the ranch owner is withdrawing the trespass claim associated with a digital marker known as Waypoint 6. That would preclude the need for a trial later this month. Eshelman had sued four...

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