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Drilling's hidden costs
Extracting oil and gas takes a toll on the land, despite pledges of environmentally sound practices
How do you drill through a drinking water aquifer and extract oil from the earth below without polluting that water with oil — and threatening public health?
That's a question Galisteo Basin residents have been asking since last fall, when Tecton Energy announced plans to drill for a million barrels of light, sweet crude in the area.
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- Political passion fuels big turnout at Democratic ward meetings
- County suspends Galisteo Basin drilling for one year
- Tecton decries proposed moratorium
- County hires new lawyer to draft rules on drilling
- Tapping the unknown: Geologists remain divided about Galisteo Basin reserves
- The geology behind the Galisteo Basin
- High pressure, heat form oil, gas deposits
- Speculation swirls over Tecton's ultimate goal
- Galisteo drilling hits hurdle
- New oil and gas development rules ‘toughest’ to date says Ross
- Proposed drilling ordinance updated
- County to hold hearing on oil drilling measure
- Oil and gas development: What lies beneath
- Tecton Energy seeks permits for 3 new oil wells
- Meeting 'first step' in resolving drilling debate
- Drilling opposition steadily builds
- Residents given venue to voice drilling concerns
- Officials warn of overregulating oil and gas industry
- County approves oil-gas drilling moratorium
- Galisteo Basin: Officials want state to hold off drilling
- Not in their front yard: An environmental attorney faces his own oil battle in the Galisteo Basin
- Overflowing crowd demands more restrictions in light of proposed
Galisteo Basin drilling - Drilling foes pack Chavez Center
- Designer's purchase of oil rights blocks oil drilling on Galisteo ranch
- Pressure builds in battle over oil driling
- Crowd rallies against drilling
Multimedia
Hand of Man
A view of the oil drilling controversy brewing in the Galisteo Basin. Listen as a couple of area residents talk about their views on proposed drilling operations by Techton....Launch- My view: Deny drillers? Then be ready to compensate2/17/08
- Editorial: Landowners need warning of gas and oil drilling leases2/11/08
- My view: Protect sensitive sites from degradation, pollution1/20/08
- My view: Need for safeguards goes beyond Galisteo Basin1/20/08
- My view: Drilling resolution requires macro view1/20/08
- Editorial: Guv quickly returns to enviro-battlefield1/17/08
- My view: Preservation: Act locally, benefit globally1/13/08
- My view: County, involve public in future of land use1/13/08
- Editorial: Políticos, put on brakes and open oil-law process
- Editorial: Battle against drilling has potential to explode
- Editorial: Drilling moratorium a reasonable one
- Editorial: A petro-boom at our doorstep?
- Tapping the unknown: Geologists remain divided about Galisteo Basin reserves
- The geology behind the Galisteo Basin
- High pressure, heat form oil, gas deposits
- Speculation swirls over Tecton's ultimate goal
Links
- Santa Fe County: www.santafecounty.org
- Tecton Energy: www.tectonenergy.com
- Oil and Gas Accountability Project A guide for residents
- Sound off: Send a letter to the editor
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