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

April 2013
Author
Geoff McGhee
John McChesney
Geoff McGhee
Ariana Reguzzoni
Publisher
Rural West Initiative, Bill Lane Center for the American West
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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.
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