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by forty acres and nineteen ninety three and decided it would be a great place to find a bell home and retire. i am fifty generation my great great grandfather homesteaded here. for so let's go to gates that way he was killed before he would go a mile. sarah wants to board. we have three hundred head of out and come down on the high country they're encouraged to believe in your. i'm a fourth generation rancher when i was mental dad would let me have him cows out of the herd so i could have known her.

for my favorite things is the red winged blackbirds and she was the honey honey the red winged blackbirds are back you know. this has been my favorite place i've ever lived in my life to say representatives is one your you have been injured playing every regular title some senate house the explosions at a directing president days witnesses graphic resample world countries are eight hundred thirty six billion dollars for control one hundred twenty dollars a barrel of dollars a month literally for all sorts of the there she is. we call it our new neighbor neighbor nine o seven. we are in split a. the state situation where we on the surface and someone else on some mineral

rights and what happens in colorado and i think in most western states is the mineral rights. are dominant the law and mineral extraction goes back hundreds of years that says the mineral owner has a right to extract that mineral and to a certain extent can extract it and impact the service without compensation. we have seventy acres here and i can't convince them that they need to drill somewhere besides two hundred feet from our house. the energy policy has been to drill drill drill drill civil war era very strong industry they've got a tremendous amount of political influence and an awful lot of money. as a civil servant i spoke out. but it's difficult to do so and because you feel

constantly that you're risking your job or your family's future. i don't. see here one day as i sat there and look out my window and i backyard all i could think was there's no way i can stay here for it's i'm sitting here with all of the right resources these people need help. or any problems before we do right. but they're motivated by profits and unfortunately are motivated by short term profits they don't take the long view.

a couple times this is you can go out here unless you come over here and live in my house for a week. i have no rights. the rocky mountains are seeing an unprecedented boom in oil and gas drilling. montana wyoming colorado new mexico utah the boom is happening all over the country there's oil and gas operations in thirty two states right now but the rocky mountain states are really seeing the vast majority of the expansion. and it's overflowing into communities where people are seeing this right in their backyards. oh sure you were they wanted to put this location one of the first places that they wanted to put it

to surprise you and say you have to do well out there you don't have in the city. a split estate situation is when somebody who the surface of their land does not own the resources that are underneath their land for example oil and gas or other minerals a private person could own a house with land and the federal government or another private individual might on the resources under it the person who owns the oil and gas has rights to access that oil and gas which means that whoever owns the surface probably can't control what happens on their own property just lime you stakes out the middle mouth off the field believe this this they represent their outer boundary. of they're. just guessing that it would be about two hundred feet from our house which is also close because we say we don't want the smell and they say well i'd rather smell like yes well life this is you're crazy if you think it's sick or some ill in life

you feel. displeased state is a concept that dates back to when the english king reserved his rights to gold and silver deposits despite who owned the land as america was homesteaded the government continue the tradition of this kind of separate ownership. for one minute that anything is off one hundred fifty feet away from your house one and a half times of the month of derrick so if it falls over one hundred years we see this look on people's faces and they get that look at most only a minute they can be right that's not fair that can't be but it is that's the way it is this is an active drilling rig near a small house showing just how close the tin can be and how large the pad is during drilling a site can cover several acres before it is reduced to

a smaller pad for the producing well. today with cries for more domestic oil and gas production. energy companies have been aggressively leasing mineral rights so that they can drill beneath both private and public lands all over the rocky mountain west this industry has been expanding dramatically tens of thousands of new wells across the region in colorado alone we've got about thirty thousand wells and we expect another thirty thousand in the next five or six years for decades the oil and gas industry has lobbied to create a regulatory climate which has paved the way for the current drilling. that in two thousand after the bush cheney election there was a dramatic acceleration in drilling activity both had received large contributions from oil and gas interests and the vice president had been the chief executive of halliburton a major player in the drilling industry. the needs of our growing economy also

means expanding our domestic production of oil and natural gas which are vital fuel for transportation electricity and manufacturing whatever. alternative sources and for conserving energy and that's part of our plan the reality is and you know why virtually one hundred percent of our transportation needs many democrats fought the bush cheney energy policy they felt they were shut out of the process of developing the nation's approach to energy but this administration is aghast at all a bit of frankly and so they're they're wedded to an old policy they're wedded to a twentieth century policy when we need a twenty first century policy you have the bush administration you know to all men at the very top and they aren't sympathetic they're making very serious mistakes because they talk to themselves and the energy companies and only themselves in the energy companies we don't know what other provisions may have been

a special interest provisions that are easy to add in when you're writing when. these bills in secret in two thousand and five the administration's energy bill passed with support from members of both political parties it provided the gas and oil industry. of dollars in subsidies tax breaks and research money sixty five percent of the current subsidies go to gas and oil and you have there's a balance we ought to have sixty five percent or more eighty percent ought to be going to alternative renewable technology through energy efficiency the energy bill makes practical reforms to the oil and gas permitting process to encourage new exploration after years of debate and division. congress passed a good bill. it

all began here for us twenty five years ago when my husband moved here and then i moved here eighteen years ago. arlen and i were married in one nine hundred eighty eight i was a pharmaceutical chemist for many years if my husband is a civil engineer with a specialty in water and he is retired a few years ago we ran into some real problems with the oil and gas industry because they have begun drilling here in canada island gas contacted us in the early spring of two thousand and four with the proposal that they would put wells on our land and we began negotiations surface use agreement with them and we negotiated for nine months and the bulldozer showed up one day and began ripping and tearing before we had signed a surface use agreement. the regulations require that oil and gas companies consult

with landowners before drilling if the landowner doesn't agree to the terms the company proposes it can post a guard with the state go on to the land and drill anyway that's what happened to the bells. when we first just i asked the seller about the mineral rights and he said he didn't have to sell eighty five percent of landowners in colorado do not own the rights to the minerals under their land they're in there you get on the federal property and i think it is private interests that all human rights all through here once you get on the forest or b.l.m. land of course it's a government garfield county located high in the colorado rockies was always a quiet lure area for its residents. but in the one nine hundred ninety s. things started to change. gas an oil drilling big engine boom and development has

expanded dramatically each year when i first came to colorado twenty seven years ago the energy production was for oil in the time that there was the synthetic fuels corporation and it was all about oil shale natural gas they didn't have pipelines for it and so they were trying to figure out what to do with all the natural gas you know there was a lot of there was no use for a little time now natural gas was the biggest thing that's going on in lester in colorado. there's no in canada leases in here cross roads build very corporation and over there on pain acre spacing for mayor and you know what you're looking for and you know how many wells around paired it you can see three four hundred wells. you're standing right over a pipeline right here the way.

right we wish to you in and we had a spill. do you see over my head here we've got the neighbors wells are all three forum over there and that stack closest to the blue one day it look like old faithful had over there the separator spewed paraffin. out all over the pad and on over into our good a number of acres of our passion and that paraffin was laced with anthrax chemicals hydrocarbons of various kinds we were concerned it would contaminate and did. and the grasses were fairly in dry and whatnot so we used to burn the d.h. in writing carbons along with it for when get it over.

come with us operates about ten thousand wells. here in the basin which is. an incredible number of wells and to prime months on a daily basis and so as a simple example we do well over the years and look at what our wells should be delivering and if we spend five minutes per well i it takes about nine months to go through that process everything below us down here is our main the canyon. if you get up on the big harris base the branches those branches are just littered with wells approximately five hundred all total. and now with the new wells basin that they have proved will go from mobile five hundred to a. hundred within the next twenty years we drill that averages about three hundred fifty new wells per year when you take colorado side and include that we think that

conoco phillips has probably another ten thousand or wells there where you will have the real in the basin over the next forty years. to sharply increase drilling on gilbert or mentions ranch is typical of what has happened to vast expanses of northern new mexico land. a satellite image shows the crisscrossing patterns of access roads and wells extending for hundreds of miles across some one county and north west new mexico. third has been so bad that i can't recognize it from the first time i saw at. the ranch lands of san juan county are the only areas inundated by drilling rigs. in the towns near gilbert are meant as land there are

a wells everywhere in neighborhoods and near schools. gas industry has been here for fifteen plus years and we do drill in populated areas you can go out here. a couple hundred yards from this office and find a pretty decent well. as the largest producer in the san juan basin when you look at the total twenty our workforce directly and indirectly before in the forest it's about a person the local population so we're a very large employer in the basin. industry has brought jobs and money to fix. but for gilbert our mentor the price is pretty much too high. and the gate will be the gate to entering from our property the old company had me completely locked out for two and a half years and the only way they would immediately offer to you is if i agreed to keep the gate locked at all times. in the three has the mentality that. it's all

theirs and one belong to nobody else. and that's what they tell us when they come out the grill here on our land it's ours and you're in our way. we just think the good neighbor program is something that has some relevance or better just respect because if you don't two things will happen first is the government will regulate and a lot of times regulated out of business and second is the mexico becomes an unfriendly business environment and oil and gas industries go elsewhere i don't think the state wants the oil and gas industry doesn't want that we have a very large emphasis with our three hundred twenty five member companies about being a good neighbor about talking to people about doing the things that you would do in your neighborhood with your next door neighbor.

in the u.s. from the gold forty eight on shore the boom that is crude going on is driven a lot by technology or a lot of technological advances as the result of drilling with fracture stimulation one of the key elements to finding and getting the resource out of very tight sand or hard rock is a fracking process fracking is just a short word for fracturing hydraulic fracturing or fracking as it's commonly called is a drilling technique first commercialised by how labor in one thousand nine hundred forty nine. comes in with very high powered water and sand and a slightly soapy mixture and all it does is it goes down and it is fractures little tiny fractures in the rock and then sand goes intervals fractures and allows that gas to escape. and then the gas flows in to the pipe up to the surface of the people's homes. hydraulic fracturing is largely responsible for the domestic

drilling boom because of its high cost it was not widely used until recently in the one nine hundred ninety s. when the price of natural gas shot up high enough to make it affordable this is here in the reserve it's here don't just see you colborne is one of the world's leading authorities on endor krynn disrupting chemicals in the environment and their impact on humans here the trucks are coming all the way which is thirty miles to here she has been studying the chemicals used by the industry for drilling and extraction and documenting their effects basically our first list of the chemicals that were being used was this very very short and an interesting west that e.p.a. pretty gether it certainly was a comprehensive we know he found out very rapidly that it was no small list they don't tell you everything that's in a product you may only get five percent of what's in that product and the rest of

it is proprietary or they just don't get it they don't have to. the island gas deposits below ground contain toxic compounds that are brought to the surface during drilling these compounds pollute the environment and can cause health problems but the impacts of drilling are made even worse by the chemical products that are injected during the process dr colborne has documented over two hundred products used in colorado drilling over ninety percent contained chemicals with adverse health effects. there is not only prove that there is anything harmful and the fracking fluids that are used to fracture the wells there are flaws are not toxic in a way that a lot of that as well. mis understanding of what is actually in the fluids i have fracking fluid taken right out of a tracking truck in my office i've had it in my mouth

a taste of it and i'm just i for people who are telling you that these products are safe first i ask them what they have been trained in to find out who's paying their salary and third actually hand them a real glass full of something that you have taken from evaporation time and ask them to drink it. i think it's just so far the people understand that we live here long and also so i would be macedonia just. like. he and harold hofmeister live across the road from the belle farm surrounded by an ever increasing number of natural gas wells and we're and dad actually sleeping and . we heard this pop and then our son called he said that the well is on fire and my

husband wanted to try to go outside and it was too hot on the deck so he couldn't remove all the noise right of way are all and then the fire trucks came but they waited way down because there was nothing they could do or put away for more for the colonel yeah founder of the yeah so i think they were there basically for a howland's you know if they caught fire or something you know one of our structures. and just real accidents and skills are common in these communities between two thousand and three and two thousand and eight it is estimated that there were one thousand four hundred and thirty five spills in colorado. nearly a quarter of these skills are believed to have contaminated either ground or surface water in the state. every time we do that's why that's why we see this want to see this and it's

a good thing not but you know. a little farther down dry hollow road is the divide creek. ok here we go that's where lisa bracken and her family live. this is that first discover. who got a call one day april first from a neighbor steve thompson and said you know i found some stuff down here on my place it doesn't look right. they did come look at it and he said it's not normal he always involve a man water or a pair of large little first your album. that's all there are problems. on both those in our properties there was a the evidence of bubbling in the creek we didn't know what it was it looked like a pepsi can there was just an eruption of bubbles is in all over the place in the reeds in the water in an effort to convince authorities that the bubbling was not occurring naturally lisa and her family demonstrated that the gas would ignite.

water samples taken from the ground water in the divide creek see the area showed levels of a carcinogen benzene forty eight times government standards gas was released into the creek for fifty five days before the well believed to have caused the seep was resealed after they were mediated the well evidence of the sea largely disappeared here it went away and pepys place on langer's it the medicine if it can't really and are still some evidence of it there but it's the only lingering presence. to this day gas continues to bubble up at the seams main exit point on pepe langer's line and. so what they're trying to do is contain everything they can come in a full right in

a certain area here if there's benzene to in there and nobody knows how long it's going to three or if ever. well really you know everything is going to be figured out. according to a statement provided by the end kind of corporation nothing that and can a did was out of compliance with the regulations in place at that time extensive monitoring following the incident indicates there was no contamination of residential water sources as a result of the sea and air convection system is in place to remove benzene from the groundwater in the plume area spills and groundwater contamination can occur anywhere there is drilling industry representatives often try to downplay their environmental impact this is colorado matters so coloradans who with new will of gas will see truly what is making the series spike in oil and gas drilling and try

to run always have a good way to get senators moving from a should about the effect it will truly on human health. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada that. giant corporations are. damn few for sure on t. allocation. i pod touch from the top story. on the go. video on demand.