<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:syn="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/">




    



<channel rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/search_rss" >
  <title>High Country News</title>
  <link>http://www.hcn.org</link>
  
  <description>
    
            These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 8.
        
  </description>
  
  
  
  
  <image rdf:resource="http://www.hcn.org/logo.jpg" />

  <items>
    <rdf:Seq>
        
            <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/a-former-energy-company-lawyer-now-fights-for-the-other-side" />
        
        
            <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.hcn.org/issues/311/15948" />
        
        
            <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.hcn.org/issues/285/15091" />
        
        
            <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.hcn.org/issues/321/16262" />
        
        
            <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.hcn.org/issues/328/16489" />
        
        
            <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16148" />
        
        
            <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.hcn.org/issues/304/15722" />
        
        
            <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.hcn.org/issues/363/17498" />
        
    </rdf:Seq>
  </items>

</channel>

    <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/311/15948">        <title>Energy companies plow some profits back into Western
ground</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/311/15948</link>        <description>Raymond Plank, chairman of Apache Corp., says responsible
companies like his prove that the energy industry can reduce its
environmental impacts and give more back to local
communities</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Communities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Socio-Economics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Raymond Plank</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Apache Corporation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil
profits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy companies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>executives</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>CEOs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>McDonalds? Corp.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Coca-Cola</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ultra Petroleum</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Linda Baker</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pinedale</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Upper
Green River Valley Coalition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pinedale Anticline</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mike Watford</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Brian</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:31:57Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/285/15091">        <title>How to deal with oil and gas development</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/285/15091</link>        <description>The Oil and Gas Accountability Project has created Oil and
Gas at Your Door, a guidebook and Web site for Western landowners
confronted by energy development</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Dan Wilcock</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas Accountability Project</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>natural gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coalbed methane</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling rigs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy companies</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:21:46Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/321/16262">        <title>Magic Valley Uprising</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/321/16262</link>        <description>An unusual grassroots coalition of citizen activists stops
a coal-fired merchant power plant from being built in Idaho’s
Magic Valley</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Idaho Conservation League</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Magic Valley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Geddes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Idaho</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sempra Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Republicans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rick Johnson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy companies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Communities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Idaho State Capitol</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>House Bill 791</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>merchant power</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clint Stennett</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bob</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Idaho Senate</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>plants</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>air</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Communities in Transition</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Democrats</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal-fired power plants</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-10T23:26:11Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/328/16489">        <title>How we lost our ranch to gas drilling</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/328/16489</link>        <description>A rancher recounts how oil drilling destroyed her rural
lifestyle and forced her and her husband to sell their western
Colorado ranch</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Rosemary Bilchak</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rosemary Bilchak</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy companies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ranchers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mineral rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado Oil and Gas
Conservation Commission</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>petroleum companies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>well pads</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>unitization</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>methane</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>surface-use agreement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>landowners</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gas</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-30T17:10:34Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16148">        <title>Taking the law into their own hands</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/317/16148</link>        <description>Citizens use a little-known legal doctrine called qui tam
to fight energy company profiteering – and make money in the
process</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>Bobby L. Maxwell</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy companies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>profiteering</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>qui
tam</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>legal doctrines</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Minerals Management Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kerr-McGee</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy royalties</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>tax cheats</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>federal royalty payments</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>New York
Times</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>House Resources Committee</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Richard Pombo</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Michael Porter</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>False Cl</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-02-24T20:24:08Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/304/15722">        <title>Drilling leases slowed by paper jam</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/304/15722</link>        <description>Assistant Interior Secretary Rebecca Watson blames
environmental protests for hobbling gas drilling in the Rocky
Mountains, but much of the delay comes from problems with the
industry’s applications</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Patrick Farrell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil And Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and gas industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling permits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rebecca Watson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interior Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The Wilderness Society</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy companies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling protests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Peter Morton</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-03-30T22:32:57Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/363/17498">        <title>Time to call the gas industry’s bluff</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/363/17498</link>        <description>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.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Randy Udall</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>natural gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>severance</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>tax</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Randy Udall</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy companies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas industry</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-02-14T22:48:25Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



</rdf:RDF>
