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...companies need pipes, roads, compressor stations and power lines to pump the gas out of the ground and into pipelines that run to Denver and Chicago. "It's a very complex mess, basically, and it is changing the landscape dramatically," says Jill Morrison, an organizer with the Powder River Basin Resource Council, an unlikely alliance of ranchers and environmentalists who have joined forces to mitigate the impact of the drilling...
Pete Dube, who is from Buffalo, Wyo., pulls up in a pickup hauling a trailer with six horses and looks out across his land. In 1995, when he bought the 5,000-acre ranch in the Middle Prong Valley of the Powder River basin, nothing much disturbed the landscape except the deer, the pronghorn and the few cows that grazed the rolling hills and valleys...
...semis are thundering along new dirt roads, heavy bulldozers are digging trenches for pipelines, overhead power lines are crisscrossing the valley, and drilling rigs are going up like mushrooms after a spring rain. Dube's spread is just another block on a gas company's exploration map as the Powder River basin becomes the center of a sudden boom in natural-gas drilling, one driven by rising prices, new extraction techniques and a recent federal decision to put 2,500 new wells on public land...
...land, and I don't want anyone on it--but now I don't have any control anymore," says Dube, 39, a tall, mustachioed man with a quiet voice and a long stare. Like many, but not all, landowners in the Powder River basin, Dube owns only the surface rights to his land. The mineral rights are split among the federal and state governments and other private owners in a complex title history dating back to the homesteading acts of the early 1900s. So Dube could do nothing to stop CMS Oil and Gas, which owns the mineral rights...
...POWDER RIVER BASIN...