Samuel Ballou Gallaher
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Local level political activity in Colorado related to oil and gas development peaked in the late summer of 2014. This report examines the varied local political activity with two primary goals. The first goal is to describe the variety of political activity at the local level. The second goal is to explain the relationship between the level of oil and gas production in a local jurisdiction and the related local political activity. Political activities...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
The United States is in the midst of an extraordinary oil and natural gas development boom. The use of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling (fracking) has opened numerous shale and other porous formations to oil and gas development in nearly every region of the continent. Given the potential positive and negative impacts of oil and gas resource extraction on local communities, the purpose of this study is to develop a better understanding...