Byline: Paul Beebe
Oct. 8--If there is to be peace between oil and natural gas companies and environmentalists, it may come through a balance of better technology and some flexibility from people who want to protect Western states from burgeoning energy development.
Both sides of the energy divide examined whether cooperation can lead to responsible development of oil and gas on public lands in the West during a meeting of the Rocky Mountain section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, which met Sunday at Snowbird.
Paul Matheny, a vice president of Salt Lake City-based Questar Exploration and Production Co., said his company has spent more than $60 ...