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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/a-former-energy-company-lawyer-now-fights-for-the-other-side">        <title>A former energy company lawyer now fights for the other side</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/a-former-energy-company-lawyer-now-fights-for-the-other-side</link>        <description>Attorney Lance Astrella represents landowners coping with oil and gas development on their doorsteps.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>April Reese</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>attorneys</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lance Astrella</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy companies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drill rigs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Split Estate</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mineral rights</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-07-29T16:32:12Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16146">        <title>Energy company stakes out wildlife refuge</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16146</link>        <description>Yates Petroleum Co. plans to drill two gas wells in New
Mexico’s Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>April Reese</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wildlife Refuges</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yates Petroleum Co.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy
industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gas wells</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife refuges</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bitter Lake
National Wildlife Refuge</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Paul Tashjian</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rare species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling permits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drill rigs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>well pa</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:57:09Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/316/16112">        <title>The Latest Bounce</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/316/16112</link>        <description>Grazing fees to be cut; Russian drill rigs coming to
Colorado; new power plant on Navajo Nation gets big tax break;
Washington may become sixth Western state with renewable energy
standards</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jodi Peterson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Grazing fees</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ranching</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public lands grazing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest
Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Government Accountability Office</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>animal unit
months</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>natural gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drill rigs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Works</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Emerging Markets
Finance International</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy boom</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dine Power Authority</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sithe
Global</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:56:56Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/312/15966">        <title>The Final Energy Frontier</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/312/15966</link>        <description>The end of the oil and gas era may be in sight, but the
current energy boom in the West means that a rough and wild ride is
still ahead</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hurricanes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gulf Coast oil refineries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gas prices</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>petroleum</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil production</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil executives</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>price gouging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>profiteering</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>M. King Hubbert</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>peak oil</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>imported oil</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BP</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ExxonMobil</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lee Raymond</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western oil reserves</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bureau of Land
Management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drill rigs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>d</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:56:05Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/307/15811">        <title>Methamphetamine fuels the West's oil and gas
boom</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/307/15811</link>        <description>In Craig, Colo., Moffatt County Sheriff Buddy Grinstead
fights an epidemic of methamphetamine use on the oil and gas
rigs</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Patrick Farrell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Communities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Communities in
Transition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil And Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Methamphetamine</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>meth</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>crank</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>speed</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drug abuse</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drug
addiction</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>small towns</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Buddy Grinstead</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sheriff’s
departments</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drill rigs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>roughnecks</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>crime
rates</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>jails</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bonnie Roesink</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tony Peck</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drug rehab</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>job safety</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dave Freudenthal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>dr</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:26:29Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/293/15334">        <title>Whose rules rule on Otero Mesa?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/293/15334</link>        <description>New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is fighting to keep the
oil and gas industry away from Otero Mesa, but the federal
government is equally determined to let the drilling
begin</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laura Paskus</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil And Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bill Richardson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Otero Mesa</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>New Mexico</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas
industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drill rigs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Joanna Prokup</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Stephen
Capra</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>New Mexico Wilderness Alliance</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George W. Bush</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>New Mexico Oil
Conservation Division</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:23:47Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/328/16477">        <title>Safety first</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/328/16477</link>        <description>Steve Ficklin is an oil and gas safety inspector for the
Bureau of Land Management in western Colorado</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Stephanie Paige Ogburn</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Public Lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas safety inspectors</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy Policy Act of
2005</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Steve Ficklin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>federal employees</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drill rigs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy
industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Glenwood Springs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nabors drill rig</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>bentonite
clay</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>barite</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drill bits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>bore holes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>roughnecks</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy boom</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>blowouts</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-28T23:42:17Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/305/15749">        <title>The Latest Bounce</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/305/15749</link>        <description>California Coastal Commission rejects 36 oil and gas
leases; EPA proposes two-stage regulation for radiation exposure at
Yucca Mountain; developer’s attorneys have to pay legal fees
in lawsuit against environmentalist; wannabe border patrol
volunteer lose</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Offshore oil drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas leases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>California
Coastal Commission</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drill rigs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interior Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental
Protection Agency</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yucca Mountain</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>radiation exposure standards</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Irving Okovita</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>SLAPP suits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Big Bear Lake</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Californi</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-03-08T22:20:02Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/320/16237">        <title>Valle Vidal Coalition gathers momentum</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/320/16237</link>        <description>As drill rigs get closer to New Mexico’s Valle
Vidal, the coalition seeking to protect the area is attracting more
support</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>John Pape</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Valle Vidal Coalition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drill rigs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Vermejo Park Ranch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>El Paso Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy
development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Carson National Forest</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Heather
Wilson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tom Udall</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jeff Bingaman</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-07T18:46:57Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/338/16781">        <title>Man Camp</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/338/16781</link>        <description>In Western Colorado, where the energy boom is stretching
the resources – and social fabric – of local
communities, some companies have turned to portable dormitories to
ease the housing crunch.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>David Frey</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>man camps</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>commuters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Basin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EnCana</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Parachute</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Silt</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy boom</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Robert Samples</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>roughnecks</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Garfield County</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Communities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rifle</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>demographics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>population growth</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Piceance</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Socio-economics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jorge Leo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>portable housing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>boomtowns</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drill rigs</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-02-04T16:49:59Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/290/15229">        <title>Wyoming wildlife faces twin threats</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/290/15229</link>        <description>A major pronghorn migration route near Pinedale, Wyo.,
gets squeezed by new subdivisions and oil and gas drill
rigs</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Noah Brenner</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sprawl</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Shell</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EnCana</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Antelope Alley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Green River Valley Land Trust</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Land Use And</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Coalition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming Game and</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Planning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Upper Green River Valley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife migration routes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bureau of Land Management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fish Dep</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drill rigs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Questar</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pronghorn</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Communities</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-05-03T23:08:01Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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