http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2002/45/we_187_02.html MotherJones.com Drilling and Discontent
While Wyoming's Powder River Basin is ground zero for the growing battle over coalbed methane drilling, the conflict is causing flare-ups from Montana to New Mexico. Coverage from Mother Jones and High Country News A Rural Flare-Up By Rebecca Clarren November 4, 2002 Throughout the Intermountain West, plans for coalbed methane development on private land are pitting county officials against state regulators, and rural residents against the gas industry. The New Range Wars By Verlyn Klinkenborg November/December 2002 They come on your land and take what lies beneath. In Wyoming's coalbed methane country, it's the ranchers versus the wildcatters. Open Season on Open Spaces By Bob Burtman July/August 2002 The Bush administration has made energy development on public lands its priority number one. The wild West will never be the same. Ten Regions at Risk July 3, 2002 From the high alpine valleys of Montana to the border grasslands of New Mexico, the energy rush is on. We review how the Bush administration's plans for accelerating energy production in the west is threatening ten wilderness areas. More coverage of coalbed methane drilling from High Country News Local governments tackle an in-your-face rush on coalbed methane By Ray Ring September 2, 2002 For people worried about coalbed methane development on private lands, local governments seem to be the only line of defense. Land board says, 'Look before you lease' By Adam Burke May 13, 2002 The rush to develop methane on Wyoming's public lands has hit a regulatory speed bump of undetermined size. Montana gets a crash course in methane By Hal Clifford November 5, 2001 The Powder River Basin doesn't end at the Wyoming state line; about one-third of the sprawling basin lies in Montana. Colliding forces: Has Colorado's oil and gas industry met its match? By Rebecca Clarren September 25, 2000 The majority of Colorado's 70,000-plus oil and gas wells are in rural counties where real estate development is burgeoning. Special Report: Coalbed Methane Boom Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
