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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/301/15611">        <title>Writing a comment letter? Better make it good</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/301/15611</link>        <description>The Bureau of Land Management is tightening its standards
on what it considers worthwhile, "substantive" public comments from
citizen activists</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Matt Jenkins</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Public Lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public comment</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>federal agencies</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental impact
statements</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming Outdoor Council</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>The
Wilderness Society</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bruce Pendery</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Environmental Policy
Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tova Woyciecho</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-05-16T23:10:54Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17133">        <title>Who will pick up the pieces when this boom
ends?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17133</link>        <description>Mary Flitner remembers the last Sublette County energy
boom in the 1950s and wonders whether there will be anything left
of her community after this one.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Mary Flitner</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Mary Flitner</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming energy boom</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ranchers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>boomtowns</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy development</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:44:00Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/288/15153">        <title>Where do we go from here? Taking the West
Forward</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/288/15153</link>        <description>HCN lays out the West's 10 most critical issues and the
paths toward positive results on everything from energy development
and drought to federal agency practices and endangered
species.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Staff</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>science</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>nuclear</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wildlife</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>communities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>forests</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>public lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>advocacy
groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental movement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>renewable energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western Governors’
Association</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George W. Bush</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dick Cheney</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>solar energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wind
energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Kerry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John McCain</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Harry Reid</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Janet Napolitano</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global warming</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:22:08Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/the-return-of-the-lords-of-yesterday">        <title>The return of the Lords of Yesterday</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/the-return-of-the-lords-of-yesterday</link>        <description>The West's once-faltering extractive economy is roaring back to life, powered by the energy needs of developing countries like China.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>multinational corporations</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western economy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jonathan Thompson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy production</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global economy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>China</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>extractive industries</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-07-21T21:25:38Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-return-of-the-lords-of-yesterday">        <title>The return of the Lords of Yesterday</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-return-of-the-lords-of-yesterday</link>        <description>The Old West-style extractive economy is roaring back to life, powered by the insatiable energy needs of countries like China.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western economy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>amenity economy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy production</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Douglas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global economy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>China</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>extractive industries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Charles Wilkinson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Chesapeake Energy</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-08-16T21:55:03Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.12/the-hcn-mix">        <title>The HCN mix</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.12/the-hcn-mix</link>        <description>High Country News will continue to cover important Western issues, and yet make room for lighter pieces about the region's culture and communities.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Native Americans</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Gulf of Mexico</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>tribes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sovereignty</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Utes</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-07-14T23:31:21Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/the-global-west">        <title>The Global West: how foreign investment fuels resource extraction in western states</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/the-global-west</link>        <description>China's insatiable energy appetite is fueling a natural resource boom in the West.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jonathan Thompson</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>multinational corporations</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western economy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy production</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Douglas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global economy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>China</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>extractive industries</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>natural resource exports</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-03-02T01:44:17Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/334/16681">        <title>Spinning coal into gasoline</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/334/16681</link>        <description>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</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Samuel Western</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Roundup</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>synfuels</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bull Mountain plant</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>climate change</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>global warming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Fischer-Tropsch conversion process</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Medicine Bow</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Coal</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Montana</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Brian Schweitzer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>alternative energy sources</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil prices</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Synfuels</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coal to diesel plants</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sasol</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-09-14T22:15:01Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/300/15579">        <title>Rural residents split over coalbed methane</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/300/15579</link>        <description>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</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ed Kemmick</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Coalbed Methane</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Coalbed methane</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>gas wells</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Powder
River County</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rosebud County</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Montana</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Citizens for Resource
Development</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Northern Plains Resource Council</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rick Rice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ranchers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>socio-economics</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-03-18T23:48:26Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/312/15991">        <title>Living Within Our Means: Beyond the Fossil Fuel Credit
Card</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/312/15991</link>        <description>Engineer and city councilman Kamyar Enshayan considers the
inevitable end of the fossil fuel joyride</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Staff</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Oil and Gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Kamyar Enshayan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fossil fuels</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>alternative energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>renewable energy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>petroleum</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>peak oil</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hydrogen</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>ethanol</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>transportation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sustainability</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:56:18Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/the-global-west/jonathan-thompson-on-the-wests-chinese-stimulus-package">        <title>Jonathan Thompson on the West's Chinese 'stimulus package'</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.12/the-global-west/jonathan-thompson-on-the-wests-chinese-stimulus-package</link>        <description>Jonathan Thompson talks with Cally Carswell about how foreign demand is influencing the West's latest extractive boom. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Cally Carswell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>High Country Views</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>podcast</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>globalization</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2011-07-26T19:48:48Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>Audio</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/343/16916">        <title>It tolls for us</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/343/16916</link>        <description>The energy boom in the Rocky Mountain West has been
shadowed by a much darker boom: a frightening rise in death and
serious injury</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>John Mecklin</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>reporting</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy prices</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>OSHA</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>energy industry</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>coalbed methane</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Iraq war fatalities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>investigative</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>manual labor</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>workplace</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western culture</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Communities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ray Ring</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>accidents</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>accidental deaths</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>High Country News</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>drilling</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-08-06T23:15:43Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/articles/high-country-views-episode-9">        <title>High Country Views, episode 9</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/articles/high-country-views-episode-9</link>        <description>Ray Ring and Cally Carswell discuss environmental dealmaking. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Cally Carswell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>public land</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western Watersheds</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>High Country Views</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Utah</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nine Mile Canyon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>grazing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>podcast</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bill Barrett Corporation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Ruby Pipeline</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-09-16T20:23:41Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/articles/high-country-views-episode-7">        <title>High Country Views, episode 7</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/articles/high-country-views-episode-7</link>        <description>Rachel Waldholz, Sarah Gilman and Cally Carswell talk fracking and onshore oil and gas drilling.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Cally Carswell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Battlement Mesa</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fracking chemicals</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>High Country Views</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Wyoming</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>fracking</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Department of Interior</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>onshore drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>natural gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>podcast</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-06-11T22:19:59Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/articles/high-country-views-episode-6">        <title>High Country Views, episode 6</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/articles/high-country-views-episode-6</link>        <description>Jonathan Thompson and Cally Carswell talk about the scandal-plagued Minerals Management Service. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Cally Carswell</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>oil and gas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>High Country Views</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil spill</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Department of Interior</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Minerals Management Service</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas royalties</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>podcast</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-05-21T22:56:40Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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