Results for keyword: oil and gas industry
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Let the EPA finish its work in Pavillion, Wyoming
The gas industry and its political partners are going to great lengths to try to derail and discredit an EPA report that blames Pavillion, Wyoming’s polluted water on hydraulic fracking.
by John Fenton, Jan 23, 2012 -
Nature fierce and not so pretty
Spend enough time around a bird feeder, and you’ll realize that nature is less like a poetic cartoon and more like a gritty crime novel by someone like Elmore Leonard.
by Dennis Hinkamp, Sep 21, 2011 -
A former energy company lawyer now fights for the other side
Attorney Lance Astrella represents landowners coping with oil and gas development on their doorsteps.
by April Reese, Jul 29, 2011 -
BLM stays course in Wyoming gas patch despite mule deer decline
Mule deer on Wyoming's Pinedale Anticline are struggling, and the BLM's adaptive management plan has done nothing to help.
by Emilene Ostlind, Mar 29, 2011 -
Frack forward
Wyoming's tough new hydraulic fracturing rules are meant to keep federal regulators at bay.
by Cally Carswell, Oct 05, 2010 -
The oil spill's upshot
The tragic BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could help the environmental movement, if greens act wisely.
by Ray Ring , Jun 18, 2010 -
Gas industry secrets and a nurse's story
Eric Frankowski describes the medical ordeal of a Durango emergency room nurse who was accidentally exposed to the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing.
by Eric Frankowski, Jul 28, 2008 -
A little regulation can be a very good thing
Jim Spehar says proposed new regulations won’t harm western Colorado’s oil and gas industry and may do a lot to help the rest of the region’s economy survive the current boom.
by Jim Spehar, Jun 16, 2008 -
When you’re rich, you can dream
Bill Sniffin is pleased that Wyoming is spending its energy earnings wisely, but he believes that even more could be done with the money before the boom’s over.
by Bill Sniffin, May 19, 2008 -
Time to call the gas industry’s bluff
Randy Udall says Colorado needs to act now to collect severance taxes from the natural gas companies that are making a fortune from the state.
by Randy Udall, Feb 04, 2008






