A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court's ruling in a case seeking to stop intense natural gas drilling in the Jonah Field in southwest Wyoming. A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last Thursday that the Laramie-based Biodiversity Conservation Alliance failed to file an appeal in time last year to stop the drilling. The alliance missed the appeal deadline by one day. Its attorney blamed the error on electronic filing and confusion over rules and procedures. A federal judge in Wyoming had ruled earlier that the error was excusable and allowed the group an extra day. But the appeals court in Denver disagreed and dismissed the case. Erik Molvar of the Biodiversity Conservation Alliance says his group is considering its options in the case.
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