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Secrets of the Lost Canyon

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Native Americans

Wildlife and Sportsmen

Oil and Gas Exploration

Protecting the Past

 

Oil and Gas Exploration

Oil Statoin is Eastern UtahIn the past twenty years the cost of crude oil and natural gas has doubled. As a result, exploration firms are aggressively looking at oil and gas sources once considered too difficult or too expensive to pursue. This different energy climate has brought renewed interest in Utah’s Uintah Basin. . .and has brought exploration drill rigs to the very edge of Range Creek Canyon.

 

Complete interviews:

Duane ZavadilDuane Zavadil, Vice President Government and Regulatory Affairs, Bill Barrett Corporation

 

More information:

Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining

Bureau of Land Management, Oil and Gas Information

 

Secrets of the Lost Canyon
is made possible by a major grant from the R. Harold Burton Foundation.
Additional funding is provided by the Dr. Ezekiel R. & Edna Wattis Dumke Foundation,
the Lawrence T. Dee - Janet T. Dee Foundation, C. Comstock Clayton Foundation,
Recreational Equipment, Inc. and Utah Humanities Council.

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