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Residents deserve protections from drilling and fracking

April 10, 2015 by Dustin Bleizeffer Leave a Comment

The state’s proposed “setback” increase for drilling and fracking operations may not go far enough to avoid serious conflicts.

Industry sees possible boom in eastern Wyo.; others worry about resource impacts

November 27, 2012 by Environment & Energy News Leave a Comment

Industry sees possible boom in eastern Wyo.; others worry about resource impacts

by Scott Streater, Environment & Energy reporter
November 27, 2012

REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION FROM ENVIRONMENT & ENERGY PUBLISHING, LLC. NOT FOR REPUBLICATION BY WYOMING MEDIA.

— The Bureau

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WATER FOR OIL: Wyoming farmers earn cash diverting irrigation water to oil rigs

November 30, 2010 by Dustin Bleizeffer 2 Comments

Dozens of landowners are voluntarily forgoing crop irrigation to divert their appropriated water to drilling companies instead. Rather than yield a few hundred dollars per acre-foot of water to grow and harvest hay, an irrigator may earn a few thousand dollars on that same acre-foot of water by selling it to drillers in the Niobrara oil play. But what happens if the oil industry is successful in tapping the Niobrara? Could crop irrigators and industry alike become dependent on this business relationship over five or 10 years of drilling, shifting the declining resource of water away from agriculture to an industrial use?
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