Personal tools
You are here: home   Issues   Still Howling Wolf   Who’ll clean up when the party’s over?
 

Images from Who’ll clean up when the party’s over?

back to the article
Next
Click to enlarge

by Paul Pennington

Sherrie Landon of the New Mexico office of the Bureau of Land Management inspects a well site that is being successfully revegetated.

Next
Viewing 1 of 4
Special coverage
Comments Most Commented Most Emailed
  1. Charles Bowden on The War Next Door | On the U.S.-Mexico border, the corrupt and futile ...
  2. It's the population, stupid? | Some Westerners want to blame our environmental wo...
  3. The trouble with monuments | An internally conflicted rant on Obama's "secret l...
  4. Good night, sweet trees | A scientist sees a Shakespearean tragedy unfold in...
  5. No ESA for sage grouse | Feds say iconic bird needs protection, but won't g...
  1. Charles Bowden on The War Next Door | On the U.S.-Mexico border, the corrupt and futile ...
  2. Thank you, Utah, for leading the way | Utah's Legislature has brilliant plans to cut educ...
  3. Skeletons in the closet | When the media reported that Everett Ruess' bones ...
  4. Water fallout | A nuclear power plant proposed for Green River, Ut...
  5. Down the wormhole | An obscure cave near Steamboat Springs, Colo., con...
Related
Roan on the auction block The BLM auctioned leases on 54,631 acres in Western Colorado to the natural gas industry for a record $114 million.
A little regulation can be a very good thing Jim Spehar says proposed new regulations won’t harm western Colorado’s oil and gas industry and may do a lot to help the rest of the region’s economy survive the current boom.
The leasing protest game Conservationists can file formal protests when the BLM wants to auction off public land to energy companies, but the differences between regional management plans and styles make the protest game little more than a crapshoot.
Closing the wounds If the 1993 New Mexico Mining Act is allowed to work, it could usher in a new era of mine reclamation in which mines actually have to clean up and pay for the messes they leave behind.
Boom! Boom! An energy boom of unprecedented proportions is transforming western Colorado towns like Rifle, which just recently recovered from the last big energy boom – and a catastrophic bust.

JOIN THE High CountryEmail Commons

Award-winning content delivered weekly.

RSS FEEDS

Keep in touch! Find us on Facebook & Twitter
More from Climate & Pollution
The Front Line of Climate Justice New Mexico moves to lead the nation in capping greenhouse gas emissions
When a scientist becomes an activist In his first book, Storms of My Grandchildren, NASA climate scientist James Hansen explains the truth of climate change and reveals why he has risked his career to bring the issue to light.
Totally gnarly air, dude Pollution costs plenty in California
All Climate & Pollution
 
© 2010 High Country News, all rights reserved. | privacy policy | powered by Plone | site by Groundwire and Web Collective | design by our very own Ryan Foster