http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.22/blm-plans-for-the-national-petroleum-reserve-alaska A controversial proposal for the nation’s biggest chunk of public land aims to allow energy development -- and protect wildlife. No publisher Jodi Peterson Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil and gas Alaska Bureau of Land Management caribou National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska 2013-01-07T15:39:39Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-return-of-the-lords-of-yesterday The Old West-style extractive economy is roaring back to life, powered by the insatiable energy needs of countries like China. No publisher Paul Larmer mining Western economy oil and gas amenity economy Wyoming Energy production Douglas coal global economy China extractive industries Charles Wilkinson Chesapeake Energy 2011-08-16T21:55:03Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/the-global-west/boom-or-bust-for-the-wests-fossil-fuel-economy The developing countries of Asia will drive future fossil fuel production in the West. No publisher Robert Jackman multinational corporations mining energy consumption Western economy oil and gas Energy production coal global economy China extractive industries natural resource exports 2011-07-21T21:44:34Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/the-return-of-the-lords-of-yesterday The West's once-faltering extractive economy is roaring back to life, powered by the energy needs of developing countries like China. No publisher Paul Larmer multinational corporations mining Western economy oil and gas Jonathan Thompson Energy production coal global economy China extractive industries 2011-07-21T21:25:38Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/the-global-west/jonathan-thompson-on-the-wests-chinese-stimulus-package Jonathan Thompson talks with Cally Carswell about how foreign demand is influencing the West's latest extractive boom. No publisher Cally Carswell oil and gas High Country Views podcast mining globalization 2011-07-26T19:48:48Z Audio http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/the-global-west China's insatiable energy appetite is fueling a natural resource boom in the West. No publisher Jonathan Thompson multinational corporations mining Western economy oil and gas Wyoming Energy production Douglas coal global economy China extractive industries natural resource exports 2012-03-02T01:44:17Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.11/hydrofracked-one-mans-quest-for-answers-about-natural-gas-drilling/abrahm-lustgarten-on-fracking An interview with ProPublica energy and environment reporter Abrahm Lustgarten. No publisher Cally Carswell natural gas High Country Views oil and gas fracking water Louis Meeks podcast Safe Drinking Water Act Pavillion, Wyoming 2011-09-14T22:34:58Z Audio http://www.hcn.org/issues/301/15611 The Bureau of Land Management is tightening its standards on what it considers worthwhile, "substantive" public comments from citizen activists No publisher Matt Jenkins Public Lands BLM Environmental public comment environmental activists environmental groups federal agencies environmental impact statements drilling oil and gas Wyoming Outdoor Council The Wilderness Society Bruce Pendery National Environmental Policy Act Tova Woyciecho Advocacy Groups 2011-05-16T23:10:54Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/300/15579 In Montana’s Powder River County, the group Citizens for Resource Development wants to encourage coalbed methane drilling, while next door in Rosebud County, the Northern Plains Resource Council is fighting hard against it No publisher Ed Kemmick Oil and Gas Coalbed Methane Coalbed methane oil and gas drilling gas wells Powder River County Rosebud County Montana Citizens for Resource Development Northern Plains Resource Council Rick Rice ranchers socio-economics 2011-03-18T23:48:26Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/334/16681 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 No publisher Samuel Western Roundup Mining synfuels Bull Mountain plant climate change Energy Wyoming global warming Fischer-Tropsch conversion process Medicine Bow Coal Montana Brian Schweitzer alternative energy sources Policy oil prices Synfuels coal to diesel plants Sasol oil and gas 2010-09-14T22:15:01Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/articles/high-country-views-episode-9 Ray Ring and Cally Carswell discuss environmental dealmaking. No publisher Cally Carswell public land wilderness Western Watersheds oil and gas High Country Views Utah Nine Mile Canyon grazing Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance podcast Bill Barrett Corporation Ruby Pipeline 2010-09-16T20:23:41Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/343/16916 The energy boom in the Rocky Mountain West has been shadowed by a much darker boom: a frightening rise in death and serious injury No publisher John Mecklin reporting energy prices OSHA Oil and gas energy industry oil and gas coalbed methane Iraq war fatalities investigative manual labor workplace Western culture Communities Ray Ring accidents accidental deaths High Country News drilling 2010-08-06T23:15:43Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/343/16915 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 No publisher Ray Ring oil and gas energy industry prisons Green Justice OSHA roughnecks coalbed methane 2010-08-06T23:13:12Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/370/17688 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. No publisher Jonathan Thompson Western Colorado energy industry Francisco Tharp oil and gas drilling Communities Boom and bust economy 2010-07-26T22:23:31Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.12/the-hcn-mix High Country News will continue to cover important Western issues, and yet make room for lighter pieces about the region's culture and communities. No publisher Ray Ring oil and gas Native Americans Gulf of Mexico tribes sovereignty Utes 2010-07-14T23:31:21Z News Article