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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,
Jul 16, 2008
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Pushing the limits of local control over energy
companies
by Francisco Tharp,
Mar 14, 2008
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Mary Flitner remembers the last Sublette County energy
boom in the 1950s and wonders whether there will be anything left
of her community after this one.
by Mary Flitner,
Jul 16, 2007
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The energy boom in the Rocky Mountain West has been
shadowed by a much darker boom: a frightening rise in death and
serious injury
by John Mecklin,
Jul 16, 2008
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Without a college degree, work on the oil and gas fields
is the best job you can get in the rural West – unless, of
course, it kills you
by Ray Ring,
Apr 02, 2007
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Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is eager to build a synfuels
plant to turn coal into diesel, but it will neither easy nor cheap
to make gas gasification a reality in the West
by Samuel Western,
Jul 16, 2008
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Engineer and city councilman Kamyar Enshayan considers the
inevitable end of the fossil fuel joyride
by Staff,
Jul 16, 2008
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The La Plata County commissioners have signed two deals
allowing energy companies to double the density of coalbed methane
wells near Durango, Colo.
by Gail Binkly,
Nov 14, 2005
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The Bureau of Land Management is tightening its standards
on what it considers worthwhile, "substantive" public comments from
citizen activists
by Matt Jenkins,
Jun 27, 2005
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In Montana’s Powder River County, the group Citizens
for Resource Development wants to encourage coalbed methane
drilling, while next door in Rosebud County, the Northern Plains
Resource Council is fighting hard against it
by Ed Kemmick,
Jun 13, 2005
