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a second tuesday out of the two strange states edge towards outright war. up next report on a drilling boom in america's rocky mountains where locals have found out they don't own what's under their land and seen their ex rising on their doorsteps. we had died in forty acres and nineteen ninety three and decided it would be a great place to find the belle of the home and retire. i am first generation my great great grandfather homesteaded here. will still. go to the gates that way was filled with what he wanted go a mile up the sierra gone and gone.

we have three hundred head of al we come down on the high country they're incredibly beautiful. i'm a fourth generation rancher 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 and she was the honey honey the red wing back birds are back you know he. just has been my favorite place i've ever lived in my life i must say representatives is one your you have called intertwined in every regulatory senate house the legislation today directing president days with mr resampled humphreys are paid one hundred thirty six million dollars for his products twenty dollars

a barrel dollars number one for tennessee. and there she is. we call it our new neighbor neighbor nine o seven. we are innocent. 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 literally extraction goes back hundreds of years that says the mineral daughter 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. policy has been to drill drill drill drill some war era 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 think it's because you feel constantly that you're risking your job or your family's future. if you want. as i sat there and looked out my window and my backyard all i could think was there is no way i can stay out there so i'm sitting here with all of the right resources and these people need help this is before any problems before

we do the right and then. they're motivated by profits can unforeseen they are motivated by short term profits they don't take that off the field. you can load here unless you come here and live in my house for a week. i have no rights. the rocky mountains are seeing and i'm crested 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 she will 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 three well out there you don't have in the city. it's split state situation it is when somebody who the surface of their land does not own their resources their 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 in the middle mile fell field i believe this this they represent their outer boundary. of their. just guessing there would be about two hundred feet from our house which is all foreclosures because we say we don't want to smell and they say well i'd rather smell like. life this is you're crazy to think you could get sick from some ill in life you feel so helpless uno. 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 one minute that anything is often a hundred fifty feet away from your house or half times the length of the sofa falls over. we see this look on people's faces and they get that look and i say or

even it that 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 two can be and how large the path 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 boom that engine and after the bush cheney election it 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. i don't feel for transportation electricity in manufacturing whatever our hopes are developing alternative sources and conserving energy and that's part of our plan the reality is the nozzle fuel supply virtually one hundred percent of our transportation needs and 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 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 mean 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 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. 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 only 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 can last for many years. my husband is a civil engineer with a specialty in water and he has 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 a go she had in a 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. 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 land owners 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 only rights from here once you're on the forest or veolia and of course it's a government garfield county located high in the colorado rockies was always a quiet neural area for its residents. but in the ninety nine days things started to change. ghassan oils really began to bloom 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 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 i know there was a lot there was no use for them full time now natural gas was the biggest thing that's going on in leicester colorado. there's no end

canada leases in here crossroad bilberry corp and over there on ten acre spacing for mayor i mean you actually were looking for and you knew how many wells were on paired it i bet you could see three four hundred wells. you're standing right over a pipeline right here by the way. right were seen and we had a spill. and you see over my head here we've got the neighbors wells i don't know three four i'm over there and that's stacked closest to this blue one day it looks 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 parish church and that paraffin was laced with the tax chemicals hydrocarbons of various kinds we were concerned it would contaminate

india. and the grasses were heavy in dry and whatnot so we used to burn the did shin writing carbons along with it so when get it it's water. total phillips operates about ten thousand wells here in the basin which is. an incredible number of wells to try and not in 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 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 break the bank is those banks those are just littered with wells approximately five hundred all told. and now with the new well space in that the approved will go for mobile 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 some one county and north west new mexico. the land furthest has been so bad that i can't

recognize it for the first time on. the ranch lands of san juan county aren't the only areas inundated by drilling rigs . in the towns near gilbert our mentors land there are a wills 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 a producing well conoco phillips is the largest producer in the san juan basin when you look at the total between our workforce directly and indirectly working for us it's about eight percent the local population so we're a very large employer in the basin. industry has brought jobs and money to the county for gilbert our men to the prices been much too high.

gabled 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. illness three has the mentality that. it's all theirs and they won't the mobility else. they tell us when they come out the grill here on our land that it's all us you're in norway. we just think a good neighbor program is something that was somewhat elementary and it fits respect because if you don't think things will happen. first is the government with regulation and a lot of times regulate out of business and second is new mexico becomes an

unfriendly business environment and oil and gas industries go elsewhere i don't think the state wants that the oil or 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 with 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. 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 flows into those fractures and allows the gas to escape. and then the gas flows in to the pipe up to the surface and the peoples 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 you colborne is one of the world's leading authorities on endor cringe 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 uninteresting west that e.p.a. put together it certainly was uncovered heads that we know really found out very rapidly that it was no small list they don't tell you everything that's ever 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 to low ground contain toxic compounds that are brought to the surface string 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 correspond anything harmful in the fracking fluids that are used to fracture the wells you are flows are not toxic and we did a lot of things 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 it tasted it and i'm just fine for people who are telling you that these products are safe first ask them what they have been trained did to find out who's paying their salary and third actually hand them a real glass full of something that you have taken from an evacuation zone and ask them to drink it. i think it's all part of people understand it we live here and love it also celebrity master and asked.

do you and harold hofmeister live across the road from the belle 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 run with those annoying right hand wave are all man the fire trucks came but they waited way down because there was nothing they could do to wait for more for the burn yeah on the earth the. so i think they were there basically for our homes and if they caught fire is 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 he's estimated that there were one thousand four hundred 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 get supply it's like we see this right thing. and it's the thing that 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 back where is 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 think you can look at it and he said this is not normal we all were involved over that water affair bomb cried little first girl but

. that's all there after all. 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 grown water in the divide creeks e bay 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 resealed after they were mediated the well evidence of the sea largely disappeared here it went away and pappy's place on

langer's it the medicine if it can't really 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 that comes from a nation right in this earthly area if there's no friends in to live in and nobody knows how long it's going to three or if ever. surely you know everything is going to be freed up. 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 colorado it's we will it gas will see truly what is making the series spike in oil and gas drilling in colorado is heading there's new information about the effect it will truly on your.

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