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Best Practices

Alternatives Used During the Drilling and Completion Phase

Minimizing Impacts During the Production Phase

Discussion of Best Practices by Other Organizations

Intermountain Oil and Gas BMP Project

EARTHWORKS hasn't analyzed these BMPs and so doesn't take a position on their efficacy relative to other BMPs, but the exchange of ideas serves to demonstrate the range of possible solutions to the problem of irresponsible drilling.

Community Voices

Custer National Forest, MT

"Rancher Not Informed about Mineral Leasing" is Jeanie Alderson's story about what it means when the federal government owns the minerals below private land - mainly, that surface owners have little or no input into the leasing process or decisions that will greatly affect their lives and livelihoods.