{"id":13132,"date":"2013-03-04T13:44:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T19:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=13132"},"modified":"2013-03-04T13:44:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T19:44:56","slug":"oeta-in-osage-county-finds-frustrated-cattlemen-no-answers-from-bia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/03\/04\/oeta-in-osage-county-finds-frustrated-cattlemen-no-answers-from-bia\/","title":{"rendered":"OETA in Osage County: Finds Frustrated Cattlemen, No Answers from BIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"620\" height=\"349\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jkzxsxapMgE?hl=en_US&version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"620\" height=\"349\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jkzxsxapMgE?hl=en_US&version=3\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p><p>Osage County is the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/02\/11\/why-the-state-doesnt-regulate-oil-and-gas-in-osage-county\/\">only county<\/a> in Oklahoma that isn&#8217;t monitored by the Corporation Commission, the state&#8217;s oil and gas regulator.\u00a0Mineral rights in Osage County are held in a federal trust for the Osage Nation, and oil and gas drilling is regulated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.<\/p><p>Landowners and the tribe say the BIA isn&#8217;t doing a very good job monitoring environmental and health issues related to drilling in Osage County.<\/p><p>Last week, OETA reporter Lis Exon traveled to Pawhuska to attend a rule-making meeting. Her crew was barred from recording video of the public meeting, and a BIA attorney wouldn&#8217;t allow Exon to interview any of the committee members.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>Landowners have reported cattle deaths from hydrogen sulfide gas they say is leaking from oil and gas wells. Other landowners say improperly managed high-voltage electrical lines from oil and gas operations have sparked fires, OETA reports.<\/p><p>The BIA didn&#8217;t respond to a <em>Journal Record<\/em> request for comment for <a href=\"http:\/\/journalrecord.com\/2013\/02\/08\/osage-county-residents-complain-about-fumes-energy\/\">a story on the situation<\/a> that was published on Feb. 8.<\/p><p>The Osage Negotiated Rulemaking Commitee was created in June 2012 to &#8220;address future management and administration of the Osage Mineral Estate, including potential revisions to the regulations governing leasing of\u00a0Osage Reservation lands for oil and gas mining,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/articles\/2012\/07\/31\/2012-18674\/establishment-of-the-osage-negotiated-rulemaking-committee\">according to the Federal Register<\/a>.<\/p><p>The committee&#8217;s meetings are public, but citizens must register to attend. StateImpact couldn&#8217;t find any language in the Federal Register that disallows recording of the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osage County is the only county in Oklahoma that isn&#8217;t monitored by the Corporation Commission, the state&#8217;s oil and gas regulator.\u00a0Mineral rights in Osage County are held in a federal trust for the Osage Nation, and oil and gas drilling is regulated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.Landowners and the tribe say the BIA isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[505,238,419,504],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}