This week the Durango Herald discussed the steadily declining production of methane gas from wells in southern Colorado's La Plata County and what impacts there will be when the wells go dry.
Unfortunately, the article focuses only on the economic implications and goes nowhere on the topic of what the landscape will look like when those companies pull up stakes for new pastures. Even if all the well pads are reclaimed, which would be a miracle, what kind of rangeland and habitat will these parts of the West be left with when the boom is over?
Michael Bennet (D-Colo.)
Mark Udall (D-Colo.)
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Erik Hoffner Posted 4:44 am
11 Jun 2007
Colorado's legislature recently passed bills that will significantly improve the situation for landowners faced with drilling! Among these are bills to change the composition and mission of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (HB 1341); and make the rights of surface owners equal to the rights of mineral owners (HB 1252).
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caniscandida Posted 5:14 am
11 Jun 2007
But it is hard to say anything reasonable, in Tom Tancredo-land.
Chickens are our cousins!
So are other sensitive animals!
Enough is enough!
No more factory farms!
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Ron Steenblik Posted 5:32 am
11 Jun 2007
This study, from 1997, at least started to think about the problem.
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