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more charges. and syria's president promises to meet the test as the months with a new constitution a multi-party elections as the number killed in the civil conflict rises to three thousand. that's it for me today makati kevin and he'll be with his the news continues in less than half an hour from now in the meantime we investigate how the land your home sits on may not even be your own especially if there are riches to be had underneath. we have died forty acres and nineteen ninety three and decided it would be a great price to find a delta home and retire. i am fifty generation my great great grandfather homes they live here. let's go let's

go to gates that way was filled with what he wanted go a mile. sarah lawrence dog. we have three hundred head of al i come down on the high country they're incredibly beautiful. i'm a fourth generation rancher and when i was little dad would let me have two cows out of the herd so i could have known her. my favorite things is the red winged blackbirds that use the honey honey the red wing black birds are back you know. this has been my favorite place i've ever lived in my life i must say representatives is there in your heart you have called interplay in every regulatory some senate house the

legislation of the day direct from the president the days of goodness the birth reserved world countries are created were thirty six billion dollars or clinton's twenty dollars a barrel not always enough to kill comfortable seats. and there she is what we call it our new neighbor neighbor i know seven. of them. we are innocent. the state situation where we are on the surface and someone else owns the mineral rights and what happens in colorado and i think in most western states is the mineral rights. are dominant the law of 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 any impact the surface without compensation.

on the. seventy acres here and i can't convince them that they need to drill some more sides two hundred feet from our house. be energy policy has been to drill drill drill drill some more you're a very strong industry but 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 get is because you feel constantly that you're risking your job your family's future. i think. if you think. as i sat there and looked out my window into my backyard

all i could think was there's no way i can say yes it's i'm sitting here with all of the right resources these people need help this is before problems before we didn't do much and then. they're motivated by profits and unfortunately are motivated by short term profits they don't take that well if you. you come out here and 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 . 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 we have to do well out there you don't have in the city. split estate situation it is when somebody who is 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 at oil and gas which means that whoever owns the surface probably can't control what happens on their own property but all of a sudden just one little mile full field i believe this this they represent their outer boundary of. just guessing the it would be about two hundred feet from our house which is all foreclosures because we say we don't want the smell and they say well i'd rather smell like. life this is you're crazy you think you get sick from smelling life you feel so helpless you know. displayed a 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 for one

minute that anything is often a hundred thirty feet away from your house or half times of length of there so fall over. we see the look on people's faces and they get that look and i say wait a minute i can't be right that's not fair that can't be what it is that's the way it is this is an active drilling rig near a small house showing just how close the two 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 as industry has been expanding dramatically tens of thousands of new wells across the region in colorado alone we've had 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 and there was a dramatic acceleration in drilling activity both had received large contributions from the oil and gas interests and the vice president had been the chief executive of halliburton a major player in the drilling industry. the dates of birth growing economy also means expanding our domestic production of oil and natural gas which are by. idle fuel for transportation electricity in manufacturing whatever i hope you can develop in alternative sources and conserving energy and that's part of our plan the reality is the nozzle you will supply virtually one hundred percent of our transportation needs and many democrats for the bush cheney energy policies they

felt they were shut out of the process of developing the nation's approach to energy but this administration is a gas and oil administration frankly and so they're they're wedded to an old policy they're wedded to a twentieth century policy where we need a twenty first century policy you have the bush administration you have to meet 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 and the energy companies we don't know what other provisions may have been and it is a special interest provisions that that are easy to add in when you're writing one of 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 is 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 debate and division. congress passed a good bill. it all began here for us twenty five years ago when my husband moved here then i moved here eighteen years ago arlen and i were married in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight i was a pharmaceutical calloused 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 and 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. 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. one way first just. 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 and i think it is private interests that all human rights are through here once you are in the forest or veolia in the course of the 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 in oils really began to boom and development has expanded dramatically each year when i first came to colorado twenty seven years ago the energy production was for all the time that there was the synthetic fuels corporation and it was all about oil natural gas and 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 tickle time now natural gas is the biggest thing that's going on in western colorado. is zero and canada leases in here crossroads bilberry corp and over there they are on ten acre spacing and for me are really what you were looking for and you know how many wells around there and 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're span and we had a spill. and you see over my head here we've got the neighbors wells that are all three four of them 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

a good number of acres of our pastor and that paraffin was laced with effects chemicals hydrocarbons of various kinds we were concerned it would contaminate did . and the grasses were heavy and dry and so we just burned a did in writing carbon slower that through and get it detroit or. come up with a software it's about ten thousand wells here in the basin which is an incredible number of wells to try and manage on a daily basis and so it as a simple example and we do well over the years and look at what a well should be delivering 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 the brain is those bankers are just littered with wells approximately five hundred all told. and now with the new wells bases that they 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. to sharply increase drilling on gilbert our mentors 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 one county and north west new mexico. the third has been so bad that i can't recognize it from the first time last saw at. the ranch lands of sun on county aren't 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 fifty plus years and we do drill in populated areas you can go out here. a couple hundred yards from this office and find it producing well conoco phillips is the largest producer in the san juan basin when you look at the totals of the twin our workforce directly and indirectly or in force it's about eight

percent of 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 mentor the price is much too high. this gate will be the gate to entering from our property the old company had me completely locked out for two and a half years the only way they would give me a key. is if i agreed to keep the gate locked at all times. in the street has the mentality that. it's. the mobility else. that's what they tell us when they drill here on our land. it's always. your in our way. we just think the good neighbor program is something that was somewhat elementary and it's just respect because if you don't two things will

happen first is the government regulation and a lot of times regulate out of business and second is mexico becomes an unfriendly business environment and oil and gas industries go elsewhere i don't think the state wants that and 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 u.s. in the lower forty eight on shore the boom that is currently going on is driven a lot by technology are going to lot of technological advances was horizontal 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 the bird in one thousand nine hundred forty nine i'm saying with very high powered water and sand and a slightly so clean 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 the gas flows in to the pipe up to the surface and the people's all. 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 you see oh colborne is one of the world's leading authorities on endor cringe disrupting chemicals in the environment and

their impact on humans here the threats are coming all the way which is thirty miles two year old 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 uninteresting with that e.p.a. put together it certainly wasn't comprehensive review really 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. boil and gas deposits below ground contain toxic compounds that are brought to the surface 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's anything harmful in the frappe inferred that are used to fracture the routes you are flows are not toxic than we did a lot of because. mis understanding of what is actually in the fluids i have fracking fluid taken right out of the fracking truck in my office i've had it in my mouth it tasted it and i'm just flying for people who are telling you that these products are safe first ask him what they have been trained in to hind out who's paying their salary and third actually hand them a real glass full of something that you have taken from an evacuation plan

and ask them to drink it. i think it's just one part of people understand that we live here and all that also so i would be a messenger and i asked a good. deal and harold hofmeister live across the road from the dell farm surrounded by an ever increasing number of natural gas wells where and bad actually sleeping and. we heard this pop and then our son called and 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 the lawyer right out wait are all and then the fire trucks came but they waited way down because there was nothing they could do a pro to wait for more for the burn oh yeah older of the room. so i think they were there basically for our homes and if they caught fire is something you know one of

our structures. industrial accidents and spills are common in these communities between two thousand and three and two thousand and eight is estimated that there were one files and four hundred thirty five spills in colorado. nearly a quarter of the spills are believed to have contaminated either ground or surface water in stage every time which is why that's why we see this when you see. islands and nothing but you know. a little farther down dry hollow road is the divide creek. ok here we go that's where lisa brock and her family live. this is that was first discovered. we 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 i want. they could come look at it and he said this is not normal he always involved over my water up there bomb proof large little first you're all good. that's all there after all. on both is 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 and there was just an eruption of bubbles fizzing 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. the. water samples taken from the ground 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 after they were mediated the well evidence of the sea largely disappeared here and went away and pepys place on leg or is it the medicine if it can't leave and there's still some evidence of it there but it's the only lingering presence. to this day gas continues to bubble up to the seeps main exit point on pepe langer's land. so what they're trying to do is cocaine everything they come from in a field right in a certain area here if they're still friends in two in and nobody knows how long it's going to vary or if ever. surely you know everything is going to be cleared up. according to a statement provided by the end kind of corporation nothing that and counted 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 from the oil and gas will say truly what is making the serious spike in oil and gas drilling in colorado is having a good set of ears for they should about the effect it will truly off your.