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