Results for keyword: Energy industry
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Cracking the ozone code in Utah's gas fields
Can gas drilling and clean air co-exist?
by Cally Carswell, Sep 10, 2012 -
The Bakken oil play spurs a booming business -- in water
Hydraulic fracturing's extraordinary appetite for water is creating friction between North Dakota's farmers and drillers.
by Nicholas Kusnetz, Aug 06, 2012 -
Coal-export schemes ignite unusual opposition, from Wyoming to India
Ambitious schemes to build railroads and ports to ship Powder River Basin coal abroad will bring pollution and traffic to communities along the transport path, who are rising up in protest.
by Ray Ring, Jul 24, 2012 -
Black Sunday, 30 years later
The author attends a peculiar reunion, a meeting with the former Exxon executives who pulled the plug on oil shale three decades ago.
by Andrew Gulliford, Jul 18, 2012 -
(Un)clearing the air
George Bush’s BLM will leave a legacy of air pollution in oil and gas producing states, especially Utah.
by Keith Kloor, Dec 22, 2008 -
The sick and tired West
The EPA under George Bush has put the health of Westerners at risk in order to make life easier for big industry.
by Rebecca Clarren, Dec 20, 2008 -
Dust on the rocks
The results of a scientific study on the effects of dust on rock art are somehow “lost” in the haze of Barrett Corporation’s drilling in Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon.
by Keith Kloor, Aug 29, 2008 -
Another kind of hero
In The Legend of Colton H. Bryant Alexandra Fuller recreates the life of a young man who was killed on a drilling rig in Wyoming.
by Francisco Tharp, Aug 18, 2008 -
Drilling with Charlie
Randy Udall’s friend Charlie has spent his life drilling for oil and natural gas.
by Randy Udall , Aug 03, 2008 -
Citizens unite against gas field chaos
In western Colorado, the Grand Valley Citizens Alliance is trying to work with industry to set protections for landowners before more drilling gets under way
by Sarah Gilman, Apr 17, 2006






