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.
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…
Continue reading → Abundant clean water: the west’s most valuable resource
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…
Continue reading → Pavillion Community Still Waiting on a Solution for Clean Drinking Water
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…
Continue reading → Bonding Crisis Looms in Colorado as Gas Prices Tip Into the Red
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…
Continue reading → Lax Permitting, Poor Construction Lead to Groundwater Contamination
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.…