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Wyoming witness cut off at hearing
By TED MONOSON
Gazette Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - Marjorie West's voice cracked as she described the damage that coalbed methane producers caused on her ranch on Spotted Horse Creek in the Powder River Basin, but her emotion did not change the minds of lawmakers at a Senate committee hearing Wednesday.
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman James Inhofe, R-Okla., stopped her testimony as she was describing how the iron-rich water from a well that a coalbed methane producer drilled for her family gave them diarrhea and turned their clothes orange.
West, unlike the other people called before the committee, is not an old hand at testifying before congressional panels and Inhofe was in no mood to indulge her.
Inhofe, regarded as a supporter of the energy industry, referred to split estate disputes as "some of the things that are allegedly going on in
