Tag: natural gas
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Fighting for Clean Air in North Dakota
Joletta Bird Bear and Fort Berthold POWER Still Have a Long Way to Go to Get Clean Air on the Reservation. Flares danced all the way out to the horizon in every direction among the rolling hills of North Dakota’s Fort Berthold Reservation. The six closest flares were clumped only a few hundred feet away,…
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Oil and Gas Development’s Impact on Fort Berthold
My name is Thomas Abe and I live on Fort Berthold and am an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes. I am an instructor at Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College. For the past eight years prior I taught chemistry, human anatomy and physiology, and environmental science mostly. Where I live is in the epicenter of what is…
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Reducing Emissions and Wasted Natural Gas With the BLM Methane Waste Rule
Don Schreiber has been a vocal advocate for the BLM methane waste rule, a safeguard aimed at reducing emissions and reduced wasted natural gas from oil and gas wells. Don had the following to say about the current push in Congress to repeal the rule: “The thought of a bunch of disconnected lawmakers who don’t…
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Losing the Night Sky: How Oil and Gas Development Altered New Town’s Views
Norma: Norma Stenslie. I grew up in the eastern part of North Dakota, by Hope, and we met at Concordia college. I was a piano teacher most of the time after our marriage. We lived in western North Dakota all our married life. And now we are here. Napoleon. Jim: Jim Stenslie. Grew up in…
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No Control: How the Oil and Gas Industry Keeps this Retirement Community in the Dark
Bob: “I’m Bob Robertson, and I live in Battlement Mesa, Colorado. I’ve lived here… I think it’s about six years now. Before this, I lived in Grand Junction, and then before that, it was Denver. So I’ve been in Colorado for almost all my life.” Bernita: “I’m his wife, Bernita Grove Robertson, and I’ve lived…
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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…