Results for keyword: oil and gas
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High Country Views, episode 6
Jonathan Thompson and Cally Carswell talk about the scandal-plagued Minerals Management Service.
by Cally Carswell, May 21, 2010 -
CRASH?
Just as western Colorado towns like Rifle have begun a new life as thriving “amenity” economies, an energy boom of unprecedented proportions has taken over the landscape.
by Jonathan Thompson, May 12, 2008 -
Guarding Galisteo
Pushing the limits of local control over energy companies
by Francisco Tharp, Mar 14, 2008 -
Who will pick up the pieces when this boom ends?
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 -
It tolls for us
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, Apr 02, 2007 -
Disposable workers of the oil and gas fields
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 -
Spinning coal into gasoline
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, Nov 13, 2006 -
Living Within Our Means: Beyond the Fossil Fuel Credit Card
Engineer and city councilman Kamyar Enshayan considers the inevitable end of the fossil fuel joyride
by Staff, Dec 12, 2005 -
Doubling density near Durango
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 -
Forest Service greases the skids for oil and gas
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






