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Alexandra Fuller: A fine line between protest and profession

Profile - From the September 09, 2008 issue of High Country News by Jennie Lay
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Listen to an exclusive, web-only interview with Alexandra Fuller. On a chilly Sunday morning in August, a group of protesters gathers outside the new Bureau of Land Management office at the north end of town. ExxonMobil has just announced the biggest quarterly profits in U.S. history, and heads are shaking unhappily over the rapid pace of nearby oil and gas development. Pinedale has become a hub of energy production, and many locals mourn the loss of community, open landscape and clean air. "NO O3ZO3NE" stickers protest higher-than-acceptable ozone levels recently measured here. Last month, the BLM recommended that another 4,400 tightly spaced wells be drilled into the gas-rich Pinedale Anticline  -- more than four times the existing number. The protesters want gas development to be done responsibly, to preserve clean air and water and wildlife habitat. They plan to travel down the main street and out onto the Anticline

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