WATER FOR OIL: Wyoming farmers earn cash diverting irrigation water to oil rigs by Dustin Bleizeffer on November 30, 2010 Reproduced by permission from WyoFile. Click here for the original publication. BURNS – Kenneth King climbed into his Ford pickup and slowly drove through a muddy alfalfa field as his dog Molly easily kept pace. [...]

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NEWS RELEASE FROM THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR: ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2010 Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will host a forum entitled Natural Gas Hydraulic Fracturing on Public Lands: A Forum Hosted by the Department of the Interior. As recently as November 3, 2010, President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to the [...]

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by Marie C. Baca ProPublica Citing health and environmental concerns, the Pittsburgh, Pa., city council voted unanimously Tuesday to ban natural gas drilling within the city limits. It is the first such ban in a Pennsylvania city. The 9-0 vote received a standing ovation, according to the Associated Press. Pittsburgh sits on the Marcellus Shale, [...]

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Can we do anything about it? By Lisa McGee MANY PEOPLE ASSUME THE WYOMING RANGE in the Bridger-Teton National Forest is protected by law. That this locally and nationally cherished mountain range is one place where we don’t have to worry about oil and gas development. This is unfortunately not the case—as demonstrated by a [...]

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Drilling rig on the Pinedale Anticline (Linda Baker) by Marie C. Baca ProPublica, Nov. 2, 2010, 11:03 a.m. TWO CHEMICAL MANUFACTURERS are seeking an exemption from new rules in Wyoming that require public disclosure of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, a controversial natural gas drilling process suspected of polluting groundwater. ChemEOR, based in Covina, [...]

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