Thursday, March 28, 2024

Bureau of Land Management to lease drilling rights under Lake Lewisville

Parts of Lewisville Lake are being opened up for natural gas development. (Map via the Center for Biological Diversity)
Parts of Lewisville Lake are being opened up for natural gas development. (Map via the Center for Biological Diversity)

The Bureau of Land Management will sell a 10-year mineral rights lease for a section of Lake Lewisville at a live auction in Santa Fe, New Mexico on April 20.

The winner will get the rights to extract natural gas locked in the Barnett Shale beneath a 258.9-acre collection of parcels underlying the western arm of Lewisville Lake in the Hickory Creek branch.

Lake Lewisville is the source of drinking water for a majority of southern Denton County residents and several environmental groups are mobilizing to try to stop the sale.

Read more from the Lewisville Texan Journal.

CTG Staff
CTG Staff
The Cross Timbers Gazette News Department

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