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Tag: environmental history

Gold King documents and map unearthed

While going down a wormhole the other day, I stumbled across a variety of documents on the Gold King Mine … More

#GoldKing, #RiverOfLostSoulsBook, colorado, environment, environmental history, EPA, history, mining, Superfund

OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE: The Sacred and the Revolution (by Ian M. Thompson, 1975)

Editor’s Note: While going through a bunch of my father’s old writing, I came across a copy of the Deep … More

coal, Colorado Plateau, Energy, environmental history, Ian Thompson, Oil, Telluride, throwback, uranium, Writing

Farmington flatline: The lower Animas River is dry

UPDATE 7/9/2018: The US Geological Survey determined that their gauge was faulty, and that the river did not actually run … More

#Animas, Climate change, colorado, ColoradoHistory, Drought, environmental history, weather

Dataviz: Life in the Energy Sacrifice Zone

Read my High Country News story about the fight against drilling in the Greater Chaco Region.  Shortly after 10 p.m. … More

#BearsEars, Archaeology, Chaco, DrillingChaco, Energy, environmental history, Fracking, HighCountryNews, Navajo, newmexico, Oil, Pueblo, StandingRock

River of Lost Souls: Weekly excerpt #1

… The capitalists formed the Gold King Mining & Milling Company, and went to work developing the claim, combining it … More

#Animas, #GoldKing, #RiverofLostSouls, accidents, colorado, envhist, environmental history, jonathanpthompson, mining

A 26,000-ton pile of radioactive waste lies under the waters and silt of Lake Powell

Beneath the murky green waters on the north end of Lake Powell, entombed within the tons of silt that have … More

atomic age, colorado river, environmental history, Lake Powell, nuclear, Pollution, radiation, uranium, Utah

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