Laptop Battery In the West, where energy exploration has been an accepted part of life for decades, ranchers, farmers and local elected officials have begun to say ''Whoa!''
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Thinkpad The Bush administration is pushing to expand domestic energy production, much of it in the interior West. But local governments and traditional land users are increasingly putting lifestyle concerns ahead of economic development.
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Microsoft * In Colorado's Delta County, home to a thriving coal industry for more than a century, residents and county commissioners have sued the state's oil and gas commission over a proposed natural gas project they fear would harm water supplies for three towns and the area's farmers.
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Laptop Computers * In Gallatin County, Mont., officials are battling an energy company in court after the planning board denied a gas exploration proposal near scenic Bozeman Pass.
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Laptop Computer * In Wyoming's Powder River Basin, the federal Bureau of Land Management is poised to approve a huge increase in gas exploration that could lead to nearly 40,000 additional gas wells. But ranchers are angry over how gas production is altering their way of life. They want the legislature to give them more power to negotiate with the energy companies that hold mineral leases on their land.
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Desktop Computer * And in northern New Mexico, a group of ranchers, including the regional campaign coordinator for President Bush's 2000 election bid, briefly locked gates on their property to protest what they described as callous behavior by energy companies.
Notebooks While not yet a broad movement, the protests represent an important shift in attitudes. The region traditionally has had a comfortable relationship with natural resource development. Public officials have usually welcomed the economic benefits of energy production.
Lenovo They also reflect the changing demographics of the West. The region has become a magnet for retirees and others who value aesthetics and recreation over job creation.
Hard Drive Industry officials blame the dissent on national environmental groups and the foundations that fund them. They believe that local concerns can be addressed through better consultation and education about the impact of drilling. Ken Wonstolen, of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, says that energy production almost always prompts a not-in-my-backyard reaction.
Travelstar ''There is no or little local constituency for producing energy products that have national benefits but local impacts,'' Wonstolen says. ''But we're going to have to drill more wells and produce more natural gas or this economy is going to shut down.''
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Laptop Parts Carl Roberts, 50, a Colorado fruit farmer battling the proposed Delta County project, exemplifies the issue.
Software A year ago, Roberts became so fed up with the noise, traffic and dust from the gas wells near his hay fields west of Rifle that he packed up and moved 50 miles away. He chose Delta County after checking state records that showed no gas development in that county in more than a decade.
Hard Drives But soon after he settled into his new home, the state authorized Denver-based Gunnison Energy Corp. to begin a project that could spread as many as 600 gas wells over 96,000 acres on western Colorado's Grand Mesa, several miles from his orchards.
Electronics ''If you're country people you are used to quiet and solitude,'' says Roberts, who fears the project could harm his water supplies. ''And then one day you wake up and there's an industrial development all around you.''
Canon The disputes stem in part from the Western pattern of land ownership, a legacy of the homesteading era. Many landowners hold only the surface rights to their property; the federal government retains control of the mineral rights. Property owners with such ''split estates'' have virtually no recourse if the government issues gas or oil leases on their land to energy companies.
Desktop Pc At issue in many of the battles is a rapidly growing gas source known as ''coal bed methane.'' Trapped in coal seams relatively near the surface, coal-bed methane costs less than one-third as much to produce as conventional natural gas, which generally requires far deeper drilling.
Desktop Computers Coal bed methane is also more abundant than previously thought, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Five basins in the interior West are now thought to contain more than 42 trillion cubic feet of the gas, equal to nearly two years of domestic U.S. consumption.
Think Pad Many coal bed methane deposits are located below underground water aquifers. Extracting the gas can require pumping large amounts of water to the surface. In the arid West, that can be a boon, but the water can contain salts that damage pastures and fields.
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Data Recovery Industry officials say the West's reserves are too important not to develop, particularly given the nation's dependence on foreign energy sources. ''Natural gas is truly an American domestic fuel,'' says Greg Schnacke, executive vice president of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association. ''We need energy; it's the lifeblood of our economy.''
Cisco The drive to maximize energy production in the West is clashing with other values, including the desire to enjoy clean water, unspoiled vistas, high property values and peace and quiet. The collision is dramatic in Delta County. The county is one of the state's poorest, and coal mining has been a vital part of the economy for a century.
Keyboard ''I'm not opposed to drilling for oil and gas, but if you are going to be hurting other people and it's oil and gas vs. water, I'd rather have water,'' says Michael McCarthy, an attorney representing the county plaintiffs in the suit against Gunnison Energy.
Monitor In Gallatin County, Montana -- a gateway to Yellowstone National Park and home to Montana State University -- the issue isn't so much water as local authority over land use decisions.
Desktop ''We want to be in control of our own destiny,'' says John Vincent, county commission chairman. ''The impact of full-scale coal bed methane development in an area like Bozeman Pass would be devastating to the folks that live up there.''
Infosys By Tom Kenworthy
USA Today - 1/16/2003
Topic: Petroleum Industry
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