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Category: Water Impacts

Posted on September 23, 2020December 21, 2020

Working to Prove Accountability: A Hydrogeologist’s Perspective on the Pavillion Water Crisis

Mike Wireman, a hydrogeologist, has spent the last five years trying to understand what is causing the Pavillion water crisis in relation to oil and gas development.

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 May 12, 2020June 18, 2020

Pavillion Community Still Waiting on a Solution for Clean Drinking Water

Residents impacted by leaking wells look to Encana and the state of Wyoming for a solution. Evelyn stood on her deck overlooking a patchwork of…

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residents on the front lines of oil and gas
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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Sue Spencer geologist
Posted on February 24, 2020March 3, 2020

Lax Permitting, Poor Construction Lead to Groundwater Contamination

Thirty years after faulty gas wells and unlined holding ponds began contaminating groundwater, residents of Pavillion, Wyoming, still can't drink the water. Sue Spencer, a…

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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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