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Time, Water Running Out for America's Biggest Aquifer
Apr 20th 2010 – 6:41PM
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(April 21) -- In 1823, a government surveyor named Stephen Long was working to map out the Great Plains, an expanse of land acquired along with the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. He was unimpressed by what he saw. As his geographer wrote in the report that accompanied the expedition: I do not hesitate in giving the opinion...
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Rocky Kistner: New Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Permit Rejected by Nebraska Residents
May 04th 2012 - 01:53PM
TransCanada's latest Keystone XL tar sands pipeline plan filed with the U.S. State Department has done nothing to quell local Nebraska opposition to the controversial project to pipe tar sands oil all the way to the Gulf for export.
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The Keystone XL Pipeline and the Sandhills of Nebraska
Feb 28th 2012 - 03:28PM
I have moved among the people of the Sandhills for over 50 years, covered thousands of miles on back roads no more than sand ruts, investigated towns, traveled with ranchers into back country, and written a book about this fragile ecosystem, which was published by St. Martin's Press ( Hawk Flies Above: Journey to the Heart...
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Keystone XL: Animals That Stood In The Pipeline's Path (PHOTOS)
Jan 21st 2012 - 03:40PM
With Obama's recent permit rejection of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline , the project's political and economic considerations have stood at the front of discourse and protest.
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Keystone Pipeline Fight Is Not Over
Jan 20th 2012 - 10:38AM
As Bill McKibben and his environmental supporters bask in a well-deserved satisfaction of the now-infamous Keystone XL pipeline denial, a close reading of the president's statement indicates reason for concern.
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Chris Ladd: Keystone as a Political Barometer
Jan 17th 2012 - 01:08PM
Oil is to progressives what Planned Parenthood is to fundamentalists.
Background on Ogallala Aquifer
The Ogallala Aquifer, part of the High Plains Aquifer System, is a vast yet shallow underground water table aquifer located beneath the Great Plains in the United States.
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