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    <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/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/42.22/activist-brings-diversity-to-green-orgs">        <title>Activist brings diversity to green orgs</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.22/activist-brings-diversity-to-green-orgs</link>        <description>Marcelo Bonta's Center for Diversity &amp; the Environment works to bring people of color into the environmental movement.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>natural gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Green Justice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public schools</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>State trust lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mineral rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>timber</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-02-10T16:33:15Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15876">        <title>Forest Service greases the skids for oil and gas</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15876</link>        <description>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</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Emma Brown</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Wayde Schafer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Grassland</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Club</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil And Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Environmental Policy Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>categorical</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sierra</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling applications</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas permits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mineral rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dakota Prairie</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>exclusions</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Skip Underwood</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fe</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:31:29Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/293/15321">        <title>Drilling Could Wake a Sleeping Giant</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/293/15321</link>        <description>In 1969, the Atomic Energy Commission exploded an
underground nuclear bomb in western Colorado; today, the site of
Project Rulison is attracting natural gas drillers</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jennie Lay</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Nuclear</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Weapons</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil And Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Project Rulison</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Project Plowshare</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mineral rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cary
Weldon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lee Hayward</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Edward Teller</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Atomic Energy Commission</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>nuclear weapons</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Presco Inc.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Garfield County</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>La Plata
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                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Doghead Mountain</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Chest</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:23:40Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/291/15260">        <title>Split-estate rebellion: Ranchers take on energy
developers</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/291/15260</link>        <description>Frustrated Wyoming ranchers make an end-run around
legislators and oil and gas lobbies to take the split-estate issue
to the last constituency who might help them: the voters.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Kerry Brophy</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and gas industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>subsurface rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>split estate</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Landowners Association of Wyoming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Shaun Andrikopoulos</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush
administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ranchers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mineral rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming
Legislature</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Laurie Goodman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dave Freudenthal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bruce Hinchey</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Petroleu</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:23:09Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/265/14456">        <title>National preserve is in hot water</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/265/14456</link>        <description>GeoProducts wants to build a geothermal plant in New
Mexico’s Valles Caldera National Preserve and sell power to
Los Alamos National Laboratory, but some say the whole plan is a
scam to get money from the Forest Service</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>April Reese</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Renewable Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Valles Caldera National Preserve</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Los Alamos National
Laboratory</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>geothermal development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>GeoProducts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy
development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mineral rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Forest Service</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:55:42Z</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/320/16235">        <title>Citizens unite against gas field chaos</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/320/16235</link>        <description>In western Colorado, the Grand Valley Citizens Alliance is
trying to work with industry to set protections for landowners
before more drilling gets under way</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Sarah Gilman</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Peggy Utesch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bob Utesch</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Garfield
County</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>western Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>natural gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gas fumes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mineral rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gas wells</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Grand Valley Citizens Alliance</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grassroots
group</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-11-07T18:35:30Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/355/17255">        <title>Underground movement</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/355/17255</link>        <description>In northern Colorado, ranchette owners are scrambling to
fight a proposal for uranium mining.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jodi Peterson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Powertech Inc.</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Coloradoans Against Resource Destruction</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Uranium</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>in-situ mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>split estate</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mineral rights</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-08-25T22:38:59Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/304/15721">        <title>Feds oppose state's effort to empowerlandowners</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/304/15721</link>        <description>Wyoming’s new "split-estate" law, designed to give
private landowners more control over energy development on their
property, hits a big obstacle – the Bush
administration</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Kerry Brophy</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil And Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming ranchers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>split-estate law</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mineral rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil
and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>property rights</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling
impacts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kathleen Clarke</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Laurie Goodman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Landowners Association of
Wyoming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pat Crank</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush administration</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-03-30T22:30:42Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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