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Company owners defend project at site carved from wilderness area
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The area in Utah’s Emery County where Colorado-based Twin Bridges wants to site a well pad to pursue directional drilling for exploration for helium. The project has come under fire by environmental critics who filed a lawsuit to prevent it from going forward because they say the drilling would have visual impacts to a wilderness area. Company officials say the drilling operation would be based on a 5.4-acre well site on federal land, but was legally carved out from the Labyrinth Canyon Wilderness designation in 2019.