Tag: oil development
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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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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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Dawn Stein – Even Being Deaf Doesn’t Block Out the Noise of Drilling
Dawn Stein stood in her front yard, shaded by a canopy of rustling, century-old cottonwood trees. A well-manicured lawn surrounded her tidy white house. On Dawn’s front porch, a low table and chairs beckoned a relaxing summer afternoon of gazing out over her Greeley, Colorado neighborhood. A massive sound wall blocked the view, however, and…
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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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What Happens to a Retirement Community When Oil and Gas Moves in
Bill: “My name is Bill Nelson. I came from Wales originally, a long time ago. Now I live here in Battlement Mesa in Stone Ridge Village. We have this beautiful view from our home. My career was in financial management and general management. Actually, I started off as a chartered accountant and a certified internal…
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Witnessing the Oil and Gas Industry Turn the Fort Berthold Reservation Into “an Industrial Zone”
“My name is Lisa DeVille, and I am an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation. I’ve lived my whole life in Mandaree, which is on the Fort Berthold Reservation. Over the past ten years, I’ve watched oil and gas turn our reservation into an industrial zone…it’s totally changed our way of life.”…