An Unquiet Landscape: the American West’s New Energy Frontier

An Unquiet Landscape: the American West’s New Energy Frontier
April 2013
Author(s)
Geoff McGhee
John McChesney
Geoff McGhee
Ariana Reguzzoni
Publisher
Rural West Initiative, Bill Lane Center for the American West

High energy prices have made advanced drilling technologies profitable, pushing drillbits into parts of the West once believed tapped out, and into new places once thought inaccessible. A look at three communities in North Dakota and Wyoming who find themselves at different stages of an energy boom.