High Country News

A cheer for Interior Secretary Salazar's new approach

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is not to blame for the oil and gas industry’s economic problems

by Thomas Power, Jan 28, 2010
$A fresh focus on frack attacks$
A fresh focus on frack attacks

In all the fuss about fracking, the many other problems caused by rampant oil and gas development are being overlooked.

by Jonathan Thompson, Mar 01, 2012
A mom-and-pop oil company prospects for gas in central Wyoming

Wold Oil Properties is a wildcatter - a small company that explores for oil and gas in areas where the fuels aren't known to exist in valuable quantities.

by Emilene Ostlind, Jan 31, 2012
A wild area gets a reprieve

The Bureau of Land Management made the right call when it closed Colorado's Vermillion Basin to oil and gas development.

by Suzanne Jones, Sep 22, 2010
Bedrock environmental law takes a beating

Congressman Richard Pombo’s task force tears into the National Environmental Policy Act

by Laura Paskus, Aug 22, 2005
Boulder gets the gas-drilling blues

Energy companies are planning to drill on open space in Boulder County, Colo.

by Michelle Burkhart, Oct 03, 2005
Buy them some body armor

Like their military compatriots in Iraq, the American civil servants charged with managing our public lands, water and wildlife lack adequate funding, back-up, or the moral support of their higher-ups

by Greg Hanscom, Dec 20, 2004
Congress and Indians spar over lost money

Sen. John McCain proposes a way to settle the long-running scandal over missing Indian trust-account funds, but Blackfoot banker Elouise Cobell remains wary

by Daniel Kraker, Aug 22, 2005
Congress touts 'green energy,' but bill is black and blue

The House of Representatives passes an energy bill with even more industrial pork than the Bush administration requested.

by Laura Paskus, May 16, 2005
CRASH?

Just as western Colorado towns like Rifle have begun a new life as thriving “amenity” economies, an energy boom of unprecedented proportions has taken over the landscape.

by Jonathan Thompson, May 12, 2008