Archive for November, 2008

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BLM Sued Over Air Quality and Ozone in
Four Corners Area

The groups said concerns about ozone aren’t limited to New Mexico. They point to other parts of the West, including Wyoming, that are experiencing unhealthy ozone levels that they claim are tied to oil and gas activity.

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Green Job Growth Faces Major Challenges

A massive economic transition doesn’t happen overnight. Training and hiring millions of people for green jobs demands time, financial investment, and an adjustment of expectations about the very look and feel of a 21st century labor force that is fostering sustainable change.

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Seven Questions for U.S. Sen. John Barrasso

“If you’re going to continue to send that overseas, to people who are not our friends, they’re going to use that money to make us weaker. It just seems it’s in our best interest to be energy self-sufficient because it’s not just energy security, to me, it’s national security.”

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Warren Resources’ Net Earnings Up 420 Percent

Warren’s oil and gas revenues increased 102 percent to $33.9 million for the third quarter of 2008 compared to $16.8 million in the third quarter of 2007. This increase resulted from a 129 percent increase in natural gas production and a 16 percent increase in oil production.

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Lighthouse Petroleum Closes on Working Interest
in Fremont County

Geologic work has concluded that the property has the potential for 4.3 million barrels of recoverable oil, with a revenue potential in access of $250 million at current pricing, with most expected to occur in shallow wells at depths of less than 1,000 feet.

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Public Lands Management a Key Concern
for Cowboy State

What does an incoming Barack Obama administration signal about the way Wyoming’s public lands will be managed? All interested parties seem to agree there will be a shift — and perhaps a big one — from the Bush approach. But fewer agree on what the ultimate effects of that shift will be.

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Study Says Wyoming Trails Badly in Energy Efficiency

Wyoming ranks at the bottom for states with energy efficient policies but Laura Ladd, energy and economics adviser to Gov. Dave Freudenthal said that some of the state’s energy undertakings may not have made it into the report.

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Pacific Energy Resources Expands
Green River Basin Presence

The California-based energy player has entered into a Participation Agreement with Houston based Shell and Wolverine Gas & Oil Corporation in order to explore and develop oil and gas interests in the Pacific Creek prospect area of the Green River Basin.

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Making Progress on the E-Waste Problem

The issue remains urgent, not only because of new laws in Europe and Asia around manufacturing and recycling toxic materials in electronics, but also because of the massive environmental and health problems created by e-waste dumping.

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Coal in the Crosshairs

Coal is the spouse you can’t live with and you can’t live without. While there is no denying it is a significant contributor to greenhouse gases, the plentiful natural resource generates more than half our nation’s electricity, and electrical demand is growing twice as fast as capacity.

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