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Shortly after the 6 a.m. shift change, drilling crews start pouring into the Base Camp Café in Rifle, Colo. Business has been booming at the diner for much of the past few years as rising energy prices have increased exploration activity at the nearby natural-gas-rich Piceance Basin. Four years ago, the café moved to a new, 100-seat location to accommodate the crowds...
...places seem to be hit as hard as northwestern Colorado. New drilling technology and rising energy prices caused exploration to flourish in the region in the past few years. The Piceance Basin alone drew dozens of exploration firms, including large companies like Chevron. Now those firms are pulling back. Harpole expects the number of rigs in the Piceance Basin, which energy experts say is one of the largest natural-gas reserves in North America, to drop 40% in the coming months. "There is a systematic change in thinking among energy companies that you could not have guessed just six months...
...Fifteen minutes after leaving my room in Claverly, I was at the Charles River Basin, where home regattas are held. Two stops on the red line, a five-minute walk, and there I was. That’s about the same amount of time it takes me to walk across the river to cover women’s hockey, so my first excuse for not attending is shot...
...these crops contributes to deforestation—a major cause of global warming. In 2006, Greenpeace unveiled a “KFC: Amazon Criminal” banner across the Brazilian rainforest to highlight the effect KFC’s huge demand for chicken feed has in deforesting the Amazon Basin...
...means we’re getting faster, getting better, and that’s pretty exciting.”The Crimson had to navigate a windier-than-usual course along the Charles, adding to the challenge of the grueling race.“It was the wind in the basin, which is much more open. It was really wavy and the worst part of the course,” Kharrazi explained. “Everyone is dealing with the same conditions. In the end, it doesn’t really mean anything.”The first varsity finished just...