nine thirty am in moscow or bring you today's top stories in a look back at the week's news here on our team rapidly growing anti-corporate protests in new york meet fierce police response to a manhattan standoff leads to more than seventy arrests the occupy wall street movement against the role big banks and corporations play in america's economic plight now entering its fourth week. but they're just getting going elsewhere with calls for economic equality resonating in similar protests in hundreds of cities around the world in some european capitals a violent scuffles broke out as people rushed out over their governments and

stifling austerity cuts. ukraine's former prime minister facing charges only two days after being sentenced to seven years in jail for abusing her power gas deals with russia the verdict sparked clashes between her supporters and police leading to harsh criticism for russia the e.u. and the u.s. . and syria's president promising a new constitution which is a key demand of the lethal protests that have been raging for seven months this comes after the u.n. warned the country is plunging into a full scale civil war. up next already takes a look at how the land your home sits on may not be your own especially if there are riches to be had underneath. by forty acres and nineteen ninety three and decided it would be

a great place to find myself a home and retire. i am fifty generation my great great grandfather homesteaded here. let's go let's go to gates that way was killed when he would go a mile. sarah long gone. we have three hundred head of al and come down on the high country there and currently beautiful. i'm a fourth generation rancher and when i was little dad would let me have and cows out of the earth so i could have known her. for my favorite things is the red winged blackbirds choose 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 called interplay for every regular senate house the legislation today directing president goodness to grant resampled countries a clean one thirty six billion dollars are going on six twenty dollars a barrel dollars a month little comfortable seats. and there she is. we call it our new neighbor neighbor nine o seven. we are in a spy. 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 he 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 surface 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. to be 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 this and because you feel constantly if you're risking your job and your family's future.

i don't. see here. as i sat there and looked out my window and i go back yard all i could think was there is no way i can stay up there it's i'm sitting here with all of the right resources and these people need help. or any problems before we do right and then. they're motivated by profits and unfortunately are motivated by short term profits they don't take that one family. you cannot here unless you come out 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 . but for 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 we have three well out there you don't have any so you. split estate situation it is when somebody who the

surface of their land does not own their 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 when you stakes out the middle mile fell field i believe this this they represent their outer boundary. of their. just guessing that it would be about two hundred feet from our house which is all three quarters because we so we don't want the smell and they say well i'd rather smell like. life this is you're crazy if you think it's baker's a mill in life you feel so helpless you know. displease state is

a concept that dates back to when the english king reserved his rights to gold and silver deposits just spite 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 half times a month of the derrick so fall over mourning for we see this look on people's faces and then they get that look in a story the minute i can't 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

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 is pave the way for the current drilling. back in two thousand after the bush cheney election there was a dramatic excel aeration and drilling activity both had received large contributions from gas interests and the vice president had been the chief executive of. a major player in the drilling industry. in the days 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 the supply virtually one hundred percent of our transportation needs many democrats fought the bush cheney energy policies they felt they were shut out of the process of developing nations approach to energy there's a ministration is a gas and oil administration frankly and so they're there whether to an old policy they're wedded to a twentieth century policy when we need a twenty first century. you have the bush administration you have to it's a very tough and they aren't sympathetic they're making very serious mistakes because they've talked to themselves and the energy companies and only themselves in the energy companies we don't know what other provisions made that the 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 this imbalance we ought to have sixty five percent or more eighty percent ought to be going to alternative renewable technology to energy efficiency the energy bill makes practical reforms to the oil and gas permitting process to encourage new exploration after years of the great 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. 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 a proposal that they would put wells on our land and we began negotiations surface use agreement with them the way a 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 bond 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 them to sell eighty five percent of landowners in colorado do not own the rights to the minerals under their land until you get on the federal property i think it is private and personal and it's through here once you're 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 rural area for its residents. but in the one nine hundred ninety s. things started to change. gas and oil drilling began to boom and development has expanded dramatically each year when i first came to colorado twenty seven years ago and the energy production was for all the time that there was the synthetic

fuels corporation and it was all about oil shale natural gas they didn't have pipelines or and so they were trying to figure out what to do with all the natural gas and 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 less than colorado. is go and canada leases in here cross roads build very corporation and over there on an acre spacing for me are really what you're looking for and you know how many wells around pared it i bet you could see three four hundred wells. you're standing right over a pipeline right here by the way. right where we wish to be in and we had a spill. be you see over my head here we've got the neighbor's wells that 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 over the pad and on over into good a number of acres of our pastor and that paraffin was laced with anthrax chemicals hydrocarbons of various kinds we were concerned it would contaminate and did. in the grasses were heavy in dry and what we used to burn the did in writing carvings along with it so we wouldn't get it it's water. tunnel full stop or it's about ten thousand wells here in any case in which is. an

incredible number of wells to try and manage on a daily basis and so as a simple example and we do well reviews and look at what should be the liver and if we spend five minutes per well. it takes about nine months to go through that process everything below us down here is our main thing and you. if you get up on the big here is based on branches those bankers are just littered with wells approximately five hundred all total. and now with the new wells in that the approved will go from about five hundred two. 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 wells there where you will drill in the basin over the next forty

years. the sharply increased drilling on gilbert r. 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. the third has been screwed up so bad that i can't recognize it for the first time on. the ranch lands of some one county are the only areas inundated by drilling rigs. in the towns near gilbert are meant as land there are a wills 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 conoco phillips is the largest producer in the san juan basin and when you look at the total when our workforce directly and indirectly for 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 the. but for gilbert our men the price is to much too high. this gate will be the gate to enter into my property the old company had me completely locked out for two and a half years the only one that would give me a key. is if i agreed to keep the gate locked at all times. in history has the mentality that. it's ok with them 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 was somewhat irrelevant and it's just respect because if you don't two things will happen first is the government regulation and a lot of times regulates the business and second is to 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 with your neighborhood with your next door neighbor. in the us in the lower forty eight on shore the boom that is currently going on is driven a lot by technology or in

a lot of technological advances with horizontal drilling with structure 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 the bird in one 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 just fractures little tiny fractures in the rock and then sand goes into those fractures and allows that gas to escape. and then the gas flows in to the pipe up to the surface and 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 reserves it's here to see you colborne is one of the world's leading authorities on endor korean 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 sure and an interesting list that e.p.a. put together it certainly wasn't comprehensive we know we found out very rapidly but it was no small list they don't tell you everything it'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. or oil and

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 in the fracking fluids that are used to fracture the routes in our fluids are not toxic and we did a lot of it as well. mis understanding of what is actually in the fluids i have fracking fluid taken right out of the tracking truck in my office i've had it in my mouth i've tasted it and i'm just like for people who are telling you that these products are safe first and ask them what they have been trained did to find out

who's paying their salary and third actually hand them a real class full of something that you have taken from an of admiration of them and ask them to drink it. i think it's all for the people understand that we live here and love it also so why would we mess in our newest. he and harold hofmeister live across the road from the belle farm surrounded by an ever increasing number of natural gas wells are where and dad actually sleeping and . we heard this pop and then our son called and he said that the well is on fire and my husband went to try to go outside and it was too hot on the back so he couldn't remember where malloy right outweight are all and then the fire trucks

came but they waited way down because there was nothing they could do put away from or through yeah from growth. so i think they were there basically for our homes and if they caught fires something you know one of our structures. and just real accidents and spills 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 the spills are believed to have contaminated either ground or surface water in the state. every time we are that's why that's why we see this when you see this and it's a good thing now 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 was first discovered. put out a call one day april first from a neighbor steve thompson and said you know i found some stuff down here on my place doesn't look right. i think if you come look at it and he said it's not normal he always involve a man water or a pair of large little first you're all going. yes that's all there after all. on buses in our properties there was a the evidence of bubbling in the creek we don'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. by. water samples taken from the grown water in the divide creek seeping

area showed levels of the 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 received old after they were mediated the well evidence of the seed largely disappeared here it went away and pepys place on langer's it diminished significantly and there's 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 land. so what they're trying to do is contain everything that can come in a form where in a certain area here if there's still benzene through in there and nobody knows how long it's going to break or ever. or eally you know everything is going to be

figured out. according to a statement provided by the encounter corporation nothing that and kana 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 wheel of gas will say truly what is making the series spike in oil and gas drilling in colorado is having a good senators information about the effect it will truly off your health.

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