If the corporation finds oil, expect an oil field with pipelines, power lines, storage tanks, new roads, pump jacks, waste pits. The existing network of roads to the area will be upgraded to all-weather high standard roads to allow heavy semi tanker traffic to drain storage tanks when the weather conditions are bad. It would turn the National Monument into a National Sacrifice Area. Wilderness will be lost. We're not even to the other side of winter yet and already the knives are out for the Grand-Staircase Escalante National Monument.
Sludge ponds on slickrock.
Please also forward this alert to any lists you might have posting privileges on. It will probably cost between 50 cents and a dollar. Early reports indicate that a real person will answer the phone. Tell her or him that you've heard that Conoco is planning to put oil wells in the new National Monument and that you think this is a lousy idea. They may ask you where you heard this from.