2 documents

2011

February (2011)

How Should We Do the Mountain?: Who the heck is Calvin Tilman?

How Should We Do the Mountain?: Who the heck is Calvin Tilman?

On a grassroots blog asking “How should we do the mountain?”, writers wrestled with development pressure in vulnerable terrain. Beneath the rhetoric lay a real tension: economic opportunity versus irreversible landscape change. Mountains are not abstractions — they hold water, wildlife corridors, tourism economies. When extraction proposals arrive, communities must decide whether “doing” the mountain means drilling it.

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2010

August (2010)

People that no one is helping

People that no one is helping

Elizabeth Berkowitz chronicled families who said drilling changed everything — air quality, property values, even their health — while regulators and companies pointed elsewhere. Complaints lingered unanswered. The people living nearest the wells described isolation more than outrage: feeling small beside billion-dollar operators and distant agencies. In the rush to extract gas, some residents wondered who, exactly, was responsible for them.

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