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Energy & Environment

A Reporter’s Journey Through the Gas Fields

- November 14, 2008 4:30 pm EDT

Return to the main story, "Buried Secrets: Is Natural Gas Drilling Endangering U.S. Water Supplies?".

In August, ProPublica's Abrahm Lustgarten trekked out across Colorado and Wyoming to report on and photograph the wave of natural gas drilling sweeping across the western states of the U.S. Watch the story playing out in the Pinedale Anticline, in Sublette County, Wyo.

Abrahm Lustgarten, Reporter and Photographer, ProPublica; Krista Kjellman, Producer, ProPublica

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A version of this story first appeared on Business Week's Web site and is included in the magazine's print edition.

This article was the subject of a letter to the editor of the Denver Post, which published the story on their front page on Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, and a reply from ProPublica.

Investigation: Natural Gas Rush

Fractured Relations -- New York City Sees Drilling as Threat to Its Water Supply
by Abrahm Lustgarten - Aug. 6, 2008 8:30 am
Despite New York's Order for Environmental Review, Gas Drilling May Proceed
by Abrahm Lustgarten - July 24, 2008 11:02 am
Governor Signs Drilling Bill But Orders Environmental Update
by Abrahm Lustgarten - July 23, 2008 5:57 pm
New York's Gas Rush Poses Environmental Threat
by Abrahm Lustgarten - July 22, 2008 2:42 pm

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Tips

If you have new details or insider knowledge about natural gas drilling, please let us know.

Other Gas Drilling Coverage

"A Toxic Spew? Officials Worry About Impact of 'Fracking' of Oil and Gas" by Jim Moscou, Newsweek, Aug. 20, 2008
"Natural Gas Could Transform Sullivan County" by Ilya Marritz, WNYC, April 9, 2008
Chemical Used in Natural Gas Development and Delivery, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange

Document Dive

Halliburton Celebrates 50-Year Anniversary of Process That 'Energized' Oil and Gas Industry (PDF), Halliburton's Web site, June 21, 1999
Elimination of Diesel Fuel in Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids Injected into Underground Sources of Drinking Water During Hydraulic Fracturing of Coalbed Methane Wells (PDF), A Memorandum of Agreement Between the United States Environmental Protection Agency and BJ Services Company, Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., and Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Dec. 12, 2003
A White Paper Describing Produced Water from Production of Crude Oil, Natural Gas, and Coal Bed Methane (PDF), prepared by the Argonne National Laboratory, January 2004
Evaluation of Impacts to Underground Sources of Drinking Water by Hydraulic Fracturing of Coalbed Methane Reservoirs (PDF), Environmental Protection Agency, June 2004
New Mexico Gas Pit Sampling Results (PDF), May 23, 2007
Written Testimony by Theo Colburn, Ph.D. (PDF), before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Oct. 25, 2007
Report on the Investigation of the Natural Gas Invasion of Aquifers in Bainbridge Township of Geauga County, Ohio (PDF), Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mineral Resources Management, Sept. 1, 2008

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