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North Dakota's Three Affiliated Tribes have long wanted a stake in the state's occasional oil booms, but the size, scope and speed of the Bakken development caught them completely unprepared.
by Sierra Crane-Murdoch,
Apr 23, 2012
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Attorney Lance Astrella represents landowners coping with oil and gas development on their doorsteps.
by April Reese,
Jul 28, 2011
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Marcelo Bonta's Center for Diversity & the Environment works to bring people of color into the environmental movement.
by Terri Hansen,
Dec 23, 2010
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In northern Colorado, ranchette owners are scrambling to
fight a proposal for uranium mining.
by Jodi Peterson,
Oct 01, 2007
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A rancher recounts how oil drilling destroyed her rural
lifestyle and forced her and her husband to sell their western
Colorado ranch
by Rosemary Bilchak,
Aug 21, 2006
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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
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The Forest Service wants to create a new type of
"categorical exclusion" to make it easier for oil and gas drilling
projects to be approved without environmental study or public
input
by Emma Brown,
Oct 31, 2005
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Wyoming’s new "split-estate" law, designed to give
private landowners more control over energy development on their
property, hits a big obstacle – the Bush
administration
by Kerry Brophy,
Aug 22, 2005
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In 1969, the Atomic Energy Commission exploded an
underground nuclear bomb in western Colorado; today, the site of
Project Rulison is attracting natural gas drillers
by Jennie Lay,
Mar 07, 2005
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Frustrated Wyoming ranchers make an end-run around
legislators and oil and gas lobbies to take the split-estate issue
to the last constituency who might help them: the voters.
by Kerry Brophy,
Feb 07, 2005
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GeoProducts wants to build a geothermal plant in New
Mexico’s Valles Caldera National Preserve and sell power to
Los Alamos National Laboratory, but some say the whole plan is a
scam to get money from the Forest Service
by April Reese,
Dec 22, 2003
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