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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.8/western-legislatures-grab-for-control-of-public-lands">        <title>Western legislatures grab for control of public lands  </title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.8/western-legislatures-grab-for-control-of-public-lands</link>        <description>Some Western states are rekindling the Sagebrush Rebellion and demanding ownership of federal lands -- but it's not just about local control. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jodi Peterson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Western Oil and Gas Conservation Commissions</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>extractive industries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>land-transfer bills</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas leases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>state control of public lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>selling off federal lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arizona Legislature</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public land access</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sagebrush Rebellion</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ALEC</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-05-16T15:19:40Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.6/on-the-fort-berthold-reservation-the-bakken-boom-brings-conflict">        <title>The Other Bakken Boom: America's biggest oil rush brings tribal conflict</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.6/on-the-fort-berthold-reservation-the-bakken-boom-brings-conflict</link>        <description>North Dakota's Three Affiliated Tribes have long wanted a stake in the state's occasional oil booms, but the size, scope and speed of the Bakken development caught them completely unprepared.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Sierra Crane-Murdoch</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Hidatsa</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bureau of Indian Affairs</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil leases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Indian trust lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arikara</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>green justice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native Americans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fort Berthold Indian Reservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>boom and bust economies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bakken Formation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mandan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mineral rights</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-04-23T15:49:10Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.6/when-a-boom-is-not-a-boon">        <title>When a boom is not a boon</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.6/when-a-boom-is-not-a-boon</link>        <description>In North Dakota, the Three Affiliated Tribes are trying to cope with both the benefits and the unexpected problems brought by the Bakken oil rush.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Sarah Gilman</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>boom and bust economies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Arikara</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native Americans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fort Berthold Indian Reservation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hidatsa</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bakken Formation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mandan</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-04-11T17:07:04Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/fracking-is-the-big-new-gun">        <title>Fracking is the big new gun</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/fracking-is-the-big-new-gun</link>        <description>Hydraulic fracturing is changing the energy industry -- and the entire nation -- in ways we’re only beginning to understand.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Randy Udall</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>black shales</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>new energy technology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>petroleum geology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fracking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM leases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Niobrara play</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bakken formation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental movement</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-03-29T17:55:58Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-fresh-focus-on-frack-attacks">        <title>A fresh focus on frack attacks</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-fresh-focus-on-frack-attacks</link>        <description>In all the fuss about fracking, the many other problems caused by rampant oil and gas development are being overlooked.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jonathan Thompson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil and gas development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>American Gas Association</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling impacts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fracking fluids</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Marcellus Shale</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>methane</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-03-02T15:19:09Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>Niobrara Shale</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil wells</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gas wells</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>small oil companies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bakken Shale</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fracking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Aaron Otteman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pinedale Anticline</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wold Oil Properties</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Wold</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>wildcatting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildcatters</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas exploration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>horizontal drilling</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-02-01T15:17:31Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.19/energy-succeeds-where-housing-developers-cant">        <title>Energy succeeds where housing developers can't</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.19/energy-succeeds-where-housing-developers-cant</link>        <description>As the West's housing boom fades, natural resource extraction surges, and a defunct housing development on the east side of Colorado Springs, Colo., may soon face drilling by Ultra Petroleum.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Sarah Gilman</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>energy boom</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>real estate bust</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Banning-Lewis Ranch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Front Range</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy leases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>real estate developments</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ultra Petroleum</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>zoning</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado Springs</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-11T20:16:28Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.15/epa-aims-to-clean-up-polluted-air-in-western-gas-fields">        <title>EPA aims to clean up polluted air in Western gas fields</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.15/epa-aims-to-clean-up-polluted-air-in-western-gas-fields</link>        <description>The federal government sets its sights on clearing the air above gas operations</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Cally Carswell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>air pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sulfur dioxide</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ozone</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Natural gas wells</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>volatile organic compounds</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EPA</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-09-06T15:53:07Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/gas-drilling-has-blighted-my-life">        <title>Gas drilling has blighted my life </title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/gas-drilling-has-blighted-my-life</link>        <description>We need energy -- but not at the cost of clean water</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Louis Meeks</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Encana</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>groundwater pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ranchers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Louis Meeks</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-10-12T17:49:51Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-wild-area-gets-a-reprieve">        <title>A wild area gets a reprieve</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-wild-area-gets-a-reprieve</link>        <description>The Bureau of Land Management made the right call when it closed Colorado's Vermillion Basin to oil and gas development.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Suzanne Jones</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Moffat County</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Obama environmental policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Vermillion Basin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM Little Snake Field Office</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-09-22T17:15:39Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/montanans-close-to-yellowstone-better-wake-up">        <title>Montanans close to Yellowstone better wake up</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/montanans-close-to-yellowstone-better-wake-up</link>        <description>The oil and gas industry -- and its many environmental side effects -- are coming to Montana's Yellowstone country.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Andrea Peacock</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Yellowstone River</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>groundwater pollution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydraulic fracturing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-09-14T17:04:58Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>EPA hearings</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public input</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling health effects</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-08-31T16:12:37Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.12/the-ute-paradox">        <title>The Ute Paradox</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.12/the-ute-paradox</link>        <description>The Southern Utes overcame poverty and oppression to become a wealthy and powerful tribe with nationwide energy holdings.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jonathan Thompson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Red Willow Offshore LLC</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Leonard Burch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Southern Ute Indians</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Jurrius</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sam Maynes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Matthew Box</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Southern Ute corporations</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bakken Oil Formation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>tribal governments</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-07-12T15:11:51Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-cheer-for-interior-secretary-salazars-new-approach">        <title>A cheer for Interior Secretary Salazar's new approach</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-cheer-for-interior-secretary-salazars-new-approach</link>        <description>Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is not to blame for the oil and gas industry’s economic problems</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Thomas Power</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Ken Salazar</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas leases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>recession</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interior Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:50:13Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>Interior Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas leases</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>IPAMS</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling on public lands</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:14:38Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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