Our View: County Gains Good Guide for Drilling-Rules Quest

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When Santa Fe County leaders announced a couple of weeks ago that they'd hired a team of land-use attorneys and planning experts to help write gas- and oil-drilling rules, it must have seemed anti- climactic to the environmentalists and other activists scurrying to fend off the Texas company eyeing the Galisteo Basin:

Drilling opponents had shown up in droves at public meetings toward the end of last year and the beginning of 2008. They took heart from Gov. Bill Richardson's January announcement of a six- month drilling suspension -- and from the county commissioners' February declaration of a year-long moratorium.

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Our View: County Gains Good Guide for Drilling-Rules Quest

Could the county, by next February, come up with ordinances and regulations tough enough to keep the countryside from being littered with Oil Patch detr...

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