Las Animas - Bent County Library District

The Business Research Division of the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder has published multiple papers on the economic and fiscal contributions of the oil and gas industry in Colorado, as well as forward-looking economic scenarios under varying policy outcomes. This summary, which updates a number of the oil and gas economic and fiscal metrics based on 2013 data, will be used as context for an update of alternative production...

Links to help better understand the oil and gas development process, the resources affected by development, and the potential for reducing impacts through BMPs. List of Case Studies, which detail Best Management Practices in depth.

"As different as we all are in situations, needs, and views, we hold the world in common. In this brilliant ethnography, Colin Jerolmack vividly highlights this basic environmental conundrum with his compelling account of the local conflicts over fracking in the countryside around Williamsport, Pennsylvania." -- "A riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversy. Shale gas extraction--commonly known as fracking--is...

In 2009, filmmaker Josh Fox learned his land was on top of the Marcellus Shale, a giant reservoir of natural gas that stretches across huge stretches of the northeast United States, and that he would be paid to lease his land for natural gas extraction. Fox documented his cross-country trek to find out if the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) is actually safe. What he unearthed was a discovery about a practice that is understudied...