Environmental Impact
Gas exploration roads, gas compression and water pumping installations, and pads for gas wells destroy native sage brush bushes, many of which are over a hundred years old. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service states that oil and gas exploration represents the single greatest threat to sage grouse. Sage grouse are now listed as warranting protection under the Endangered Species Act, in part because of the effects of energy development on their habitat.
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