Taking On Goliath: Coal Bed Methane Development
Across the West, gas development is devastating land and people.
Now citizens are fighting back.
Since the late 1990s, a wave of energy exploitation has accelerated across the American West. Much of it has taken the form of coal bed methane (CBM) development, which entails drilling many shallow, closely spaced gas wells across often vast territories, bringing industrialization to country that formerly was open and quiet, and to the people and creatures who live there.
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