Study: Collection Pipelines Help Wyo. Sage Grouse
CASPER - A new study preliminarily concludes that gas development has harmed sage grouse in western Wyoming but efforts to reduce truck traffic in gas fields seem to have helped the birds somewhat.
Companies have reduced traffic by expanding a network of pipelines to move condensate and produced water out of the gas fields. Companies previously would truck those fluids out.
Wyoming Wildlife Consultants recently released a report on the progress of a five-year sage grouse study in the Pinedale Anticline. Shell Rocky Mountain Production LLC, Questar Exploration and Production Co., and Ultra Resources funded the study conducted by Wyoming Wildlife Consultants LLC.
