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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 December 10, 2019February 4, 2020

North Dakota farmers fear more than just oil spills

Daryl and Christine Peterson have lost over $1 million in farmland value from produced water spills. On a bright July day, Daryl Peterson stood four…

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Posted on December 9, 2019January 30, 2020

Dawn Stein – Even Being Deaf Doesn’t Block Out the Noise of Drilling

Dawn Stein stood in her front yard, shaded by a canopy of rustling, century-old cottonwood trees. A well-manicured lawn surrounded her tidy white house. On…

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Posted on April 13, 2017January 30, 2020

Reducing Emissions and Wasted Natural Gas With the BLM Methane Waste Rule

Don Schreiber has been a vocal advocate for the BLM methane waste rule, a safeguard aimed at reducing emissions and reduced wasted natural gas from…

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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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Posted on March 31, 2016January 29, 2020

Witnessing the Oil and Gas Industry Turn the Fort Berthold Reservation Into “an Industrial Zone”

"My name is Lisa DeVille, and I am an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation. I’ve lived my whole life in Mandaree,…

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