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What Else Is "Shut In" When Oil and Gas Wells Aren’t Producing?

Ray Bloxham
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Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
A view from Hatch Point is seen in southeastern Utah.

With changing commodity prices and speculation, oil and gas wells on public lands aren’t always pumping. KZMU's Justin Higginbottom investigates the lost zones in Utah, where wells are holding land from wilderness management, if not polluting.