Tag: farming
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Abundant clean water: the west’s most valuable resource
Keeping the water flowing, a rancher’s fight to limit oil and gas development As hydraulic fracturing threatens aquifers, it puts ranching and other industries at risk in arid western Colorado. “Without drinkable water you cannot sustain life…but in this country, people are just totally unaware or totally uninterested by that,” Don Lumbardy said. “Look at…
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Pavillion Community Still Waiting on a Solution for Clean Drinking Water
Residents impacted by leaking wells look to Encana and the state of Wyoming for a solution. Evelyn stood on her deck overlooking a patchwork of green farmland and brown pastures stretching out to the low, dry hills on the horizon. Beyond them, mountains rose above the dusty brown foothills. Dozens of natural gas wells and…
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North Dakota farmers fear more than just oil spills
Daryl and Christine Peterson have lost over $1 million in farmland value from produced water spills. On a bright July day, Daryl Peterson stood four feet deep in his farm field. Wheat stalks waved in the breeze near his head as he held a yard stick showing the depth of a pit an oil company…
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An Unexplained Tumor: The Mysterious Health Impacts of Oil and Gas
“My parents worked in the oilfield. My husband worked in the oilfield. We knew what oil drilling was like in the 80s and 90s. We just didn’t understand how different it would be, when the rigs came in this time.” “The first thing was the blowout. That was our first indication that this…