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Category: Colorado

Posted on July 7, 2020

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…

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Posted on June 26, 2020July 15, 2020

Colorado Community Members use their Voices to Protect the Health and Safety of their Community

Battlement Mesa Prepares for a Continued Fight for Safer Drilling Practices When Bonnie Smeltzer moved to Battlement Mesa in 2002 at the age of 74,…

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Posted on March 10, 2020April 16, 2020

Bonding Crisis Looms in Colorado as Gas Prices Tip Into the Red

Residents of Battlement Mesa and Rifle, Colorado, are on the verge of seeing gas companies abandoning their wells and leaving taxpayers to clean up the…

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Posted on February 5, 2018March 27, 2020

When it’s in Your Backyard

  Ben: I'm Ben Tipton Sharyn: I’m Sharon Tipton. We live in Battlement Mesa, Colorado. Ben: We’ve been here in Battlement Mesa for three years.…

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Posted on June 12, 2017January 30, 2020

The Real Cost of Extractive Economies on Communities

"My name is Lowell Lewis, I'm going to be 70 this year. My wife, son and I moved here from Connecticut in 1985, and we've…

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Posted on September 9, 2016January 30, 2020

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…

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