Results for keyword: Powder River Basin
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Greens need to occupy the Occupy movement
Today's activists need to get more involved in protesting the environmental profiteering that is destroying our planet.
by Tim Lydon, Dec 15, 2011 -
When the locals don't want your coal, sell it overseas
Global markets could keep Powder River Basin coal flowing overseas for decades to come.
by Jonathan Thompson, Jul 25, 2011 -
Chill, baby, chill
The largest drilling boom in Western history is ending as new technologies make it easier to get shale gas from other parts of the country.
by Randy Udall, May 01, 2009 -
U.S. Department of Energy elbows in on Clean Water Act
The federal Energy Department and the state of Wyoming have challenged Montana’s plan to establish pollution controls for coalbed methane wells
by Sarah Gilman, Mar 20, 2006 -
The view from above
High Country News prides itself on keeping close to the ground, but for this special issue, we look at the energy boom in the West from a global perspective
by Greg Hanscom, Dec 12, 2005 -
Wastewater goes unwatched
Wyoming’s runaway energy boom is taking on toll on the state’s land, especially when the industry’s salty wastewater spills or leaches into the ground
by J.M. McCord, Mar 07, 2005 -
The BLM wields fork and spatula over the West's wildlands
The Bureau of Land Management is handing out public-lands drilling permits like a McDonald’s drive-through with a hyperactive "Order Assembly Target."
by Matt Jenkins, Feb 07, 2005 -
Hunting: It’s not about the gun
In the presidential election this fall, sportsmen are likely to be split between those who vote for wildlife, and those who vote for the gun
by Tom Reed, Oct 11, 2004 -
Oil money rules in the West's mini-Middle East
Two Democratic governors – Dave Freudenthal of Wyoming and Bill Richardson of New Mexico – find themselves caught between the money that comes from the energy industry and the environmental impacts of oil and gas development
by Paul Krza, Jun 21, 2004 -
Gas wells wash out habitat
Environmental scientist James Gore warns that the water that coalbed methane wells pours into streams could wipe out up to 30 aquatic species in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana
by Josh Garrett-Davis, Dec 08, 2003
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