Western Energy Alliance

U.S. District Court Judge Scott Skavdahl on Tuesday presided over eight hours of hearings about whether to block controversial new U.S. Bureau of Land Management regulations about hydraulic fracturing. And a half-dozen hours before the rules were to go into effect Wednesday, Skavdahl eyed a proposed preliminary injunction by their opponents in a way that would have made the British punk band The C

Western Energy Alliance President Tim Wigley says there is no reason for the Federal Government to regulate hydraulic fracturing when states such as Wyoming are already doing so.