Results for keyword: oil and gas drilling
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Interior Secretary Salazar is on the right track
Ken Salazar, the new secretary of the Interior, supports renewable energy and is willing to stand up to the powerful oil and gas industry.
by Michele Haefele, Apr 17, 2009 -
Conservation or cop-out?
A lack of participation could scuttle voluntary conservation agreements designed to protect species like New Mexico’s lesser prairie chickens and sand dune lizards.
by April Reese , Apr 15, 2009 -
Invading the silence
Annie Proulx talks about Wyoming's Red Desert along with photographs by Martin Stupich.
by Emma Brown and Martin Stupich, Apr 06, 2009 -
The desert that breaks Annie Proulx's heart
Writer Annie Proulx takes an unsentimental view of Wyoming’s little-known and somewhat scarred Red Desert.
by Emma Brown, Apr 06, 2009 -
Power of the picture
High Country News photographer Morgan Heim joins the International League of Conservation Photographers to document the gasfields and the wildlands around Pinedale, Wyo.
by Jonathan Thompson, Jul 21, 2008 -
Solar flip-flops and fish stories
BLM flip-flops on solar and expedites oil and gas; Western Governors’ Association talks about energy; more fossil fuel risks; good (and bad) salmon news.
by Ray Ring, Jul 20, 2008 -
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.
by Francisco Tharp, May 12, 2008 -
Nothing out there can be a very good thing
Julianne Couch surveys the vastness of Wyoming’s Adobe Town badlands and hopes that oil and gas drilling does not invade its beautiful emptiness.
by Julianne Couch, Oct 15, 2007 -
Nothing out there can be a very good thing
Julianne Couch surveys the vastness of Wyoming's Adobe Town badlands and hopes that oil and gas drilling does not invade its beautiful emptiness.
by Julianne Couch, Oct 01, 2007 -
I’ll take a double dare any time
When an energy developer boasted that oil and gas wells were good for wildlife, Laura Paskus examined the issue and came to another conclusion.
by Laura Paskus, May 14, 2007






