Tag Archives: Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission

Action Alert: Your voice is needed to put strong Montana setback rules into place

Posted on June 22, 2015 by davidjkatz

Montana currently has no setback requirements that require many distances between wellheads and occupied dwellings or water sources. Your voice is needed to tell the Montana Board of Oil and Gas that it is time to protect Montana citizens. Continue reading →

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High ranking Wyoming official blasts drilling as “devastating to the quality of life of residents who live within eye and earshot”

Posted on October 29, 2014 by davidjkatz

Learning lessons from our neighbors Yesterday we talked about learning the lessons of history, and drew parallels between the way we dealt with smoking and public health beginning in the 1960s, and what that might teach us about the shale revolution … Continue reading →

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A personal story: the Mogen family, Douglas, Wyoming

Posted on May 22, 2014 by davidjkatz

“The noise was thunderous. It shook our walls. It shook our vehicles as we drove by. You couldn’t have open windows when you drove by the flares.”                                   -Kristi Mogen Telling personal storiesThe oil and gas boom has been underway … Continue reading →

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