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Coalition Sues to Limit Drilling for Oil and Gas in New Mexico By SIMON ROMERO, NYTimes

Several cattle ranchers joined the unusual coalition because, they said, they had few options for preserving their ranches from the disruption caused by widespread drilling and road-building.

”What’s happening now in Northwestern New Mexico will happen 10 years down the road in many other parts of the West,” said Tweeti Blancett, a cattle rancher and hotel operator in Aztec, N.M. She said she was disillusioned with the Bush administration’s energy policies; she served on Mr. Bush’s presidential campaign in New Mexico four years ago.

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