Dispatch - Powder Keg

Submitted by neilzusman on Tue, 08/24/2010 - 05:28

Publication Type:

Web Article

Authors:

Kloor,Keith

Source:

Audobon (2002)

URL:

http://www.audubonmagazine.org/features0212/dispatch.html

Keywords:

press

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Powder Keg

The gas industry has been busy in Wyoming's prairies and grasslands, building thousands of miles of roads and sinking more than 10,000 wells in the past three years. But in the Powder River basin, ranchers are joining environmentalists to try to still the drills.

See: C-Span Book TV Oct. 2, 2004. Bushwacked: Life in George W. Bush's America.  Chapter: "Dick, Dubya, and Wyoming Methane." (152)

See: Ed Swartz: The Grass Isn't Growing