The
West's Energy Explosion
As energy resources abroad
become uncertain, attention is increasingly shifting
to the Western U.S. which hosts much of the nation's
remaining energy reserve. 
The Final Energy
Frontier
The end of the oil and gas era
may be in sight, but the current energy boom in the
West means that a
rough and wild ride is still ahead - December 12,
2005
Gold
from the Gas Fields
Energy companies are reaping billions from the West,
but few states outside Wyoming are making sure that
wealth stays at home and is invested wisely. - November
28, 2005
Methamphetamine
fuels the West's oil and gas boom
In Craig,
Colo., Moffatt County Sheriff Buddy Grinstead fights
an epidemic of methamphetamine use on the oil and
gas rigs. - October 3, 2005
Ready...
fire... aim!
Ten years into the energy rush, the West is beginning
to think about its impacts on the region¹s land,
air, water and wildlife. - March 7, 2005
Split-estate rebellion: Ranchers
take on energy
developers
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. - February 7, 2005
The
BLM wields fork and spatula over the West's wildlands
The
Bureau of Land Management is handing out public-lands
drilling permits like a
McDonald¹s
drive-through with a hyperactive "Order Assembly
Target." - February 7, 2005
Conscientious
Objectors
Under increasing political pressure from
the Bush administration and its appointees, agency
scientists find it difficult to keep both their
jobs and their
integrity. - December 20, 2004
Oil
money rules in the West's mini-Middle East
Two Democratic governors Dave Freudenthal
of Wyoming and Bill Richardson of New Mexico find
themselves caught between the money that comes
from the energy industry and
the environmental impacts of oil and gas development. -
June 21, 2004
Two
decades of hard work, plowed under
The Bush administration
opens up wild lands to oil and gas drilling, pulling
the rug out from under two decades of citizen wilderness
activism. - January 19, 2004
Why
I fight: The coming gas explosion in the West 
A
New Mexico rancher takes a stand against out-of-control
oil and gas development. - June 9, 2003
Energy
boom's forward guard stalls out in Utah ... for
now
Developing energy at any cost appears
to be the Bush administration's strategy as they
send "thumper
trucks" into southern Utah
to carry out seismic detection of oil deposits. -
May 13, 2002
We
are the Oil Tribe
Within the American Oil
Tribe, oil matters so much and yet means so little
that we refuse
to even think about the fact that we are going
to run out of it. - November 19, 2001
Wyoming's
powder keg
In Wyoming's Powder River Basin, the coming energy
boom in coalbed methane gas has local ranchers
and environmentalists worried. - November 5, 2001
Whoa!
Canada!
Canadian activists trying to save Alberta's
Castle-Crown wildlands from rapid oil and gas
development are
frustrated by their nation's
lack of effective environmental protection laws.
- October 8, 2001
Forest
supervisor faces down oil drilling
Kniffy
Hamilton, supervisor of Bridger-Teton National
Forest, Wyo.,
has issued a draft environmental impact statement
that would not allow oil and
gas drilling on land near the Gros Ventre Wilderness.
- March 26, 2001
Colliding
forces: Has Colorado's oil and gas industry met
its match?
In Colorado,
homeowners and developers are battling the oil and
gas industry as the boom
in methane gas production brings increased numbers
of wells to the rural landscape. - September 25,
2000
The
Cowboy State's next boom
A
boom in coalbed methane gas development in Wyoming's
Powder River Basin could have the
strange side effect of
bringing more water to the surface than the ecosystem
can cope with. - September
27, 1999
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