Photo at top: Full-field energy development permitted by the federal Bureau of Land Management in the Pinedale Anticline and Jonah Field just off the west side of the Wind River Range in the Upper Green River Basin. Oil and gas drilling has shows to have huge impacts on migratory pronghorn and mule deer as well as imperiled Greater sage-grouse. The image beneath it is an aerial overview of Superior, Colorado, a bedroom community of Boulder, Colorado that grew from 255 people in 1990 to more than 11,000. This community has created almost no jobs and no sales tax base, putting a huge strain on local government, i.e. taxpayers. Both energy development and housing sprawl destroy wildlife habitat. What's the difference? Oil and gas wells eventually go away. Subdivisions are forever. Photos courtesy Ecoflight (ecoflight.org)
Photo at top: Full-field energy development permitted by the federal Bureau of Land Management in the Pinedale Anticline and Jonah Field just off the west side of the Wind River Range in the Upper Green River Basin. Oil and gas drilling has shows to have huge impacts on migratory pronghorn and mule deer as well as imperiled Greater sage-grouse. The image beneath it is an aerial overview of Superior, Colorado, a bedroom community of Boulder, Colorado that grew from 255 people in 1990 to more than 11,000. This community has created almost no jobs and no sales tax base, putting a huge strain on local government, i.e. taxpayers. Both energy development and housing sprawl destroy wildlife habitat. What's the difference? Oil and gas wells eventually go away. Subdivisions are forever. Photos courtesy Ecoflight (ecoflight.org)