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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

Map: Why the Chaco protection bill is just a first step

On May 22, Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, both Democrats from New Mexico, introduced the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area … More

Archaeology, Chaco, DrillingChaco, Energy, Oil

Photo gallery: Chaco-region oil and gas development

The San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado has been a hydrocarbon extraction hotspot since the 1920s. … More

#RiverOfLostSoulsBook, Chaco, DrillingChaco, Energy, HighCountryNews, journalism, naturalgas, Navajo, newmexico, Oil, Photography, Pueblo

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

New Mexico oil bounty comes with costs

In 2017, New Mexico moved into third place in the nation for oil production, pumping some 16 million barrels from … More

accidents, Climate, dataviz, Energy, global warming, newmexico, Oil, Pollution

Interior Secy. Zinke is Albert Fall and other writings on energy/public lands

In a harried attempt to keep up with the Trump administration’s assault on public lands, I’ve put out a flurry … More

#BearsEars, Archaeology, Chaco, Energy, journalism, newmexico, Oil, PublicLands, Trump, Utah, Writing

Oil and hazmat spills are daily occurrence

After the latest big oil spill — 200,000 + gallons on the Keystone line in South Dakota — I decided … More

fossilfuels, Fracking, KeystoneXL, NODAPL, Oil, pipelines, Pollution

On oil, milkshakes, movies, Albert B. Fall and Ryan Zinke

Surely the most famous monologue in Let There Be Blood, the 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson film about a California oil … More

Chaco, Energy, Oil, Sovereignty, Trump

How oil and greed led to the 1923 centralization of Navajo government

In 1920, the San Juan Basin of northwest New Mexico and southwest Colorado teetered on the line between being an … More

Energy, NODAPL, Oil, Sovereignty, Tribes

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