| Water an issue in energy development in New Mexico basin |
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How do you drill through a drinking water aquifer and extract oil from the earth below without polluting that water with oil — and threatening public health? That's a question Galisteo Basin residents have been asking since last fall, when Tecton Energy announced plans to drill for a million barrels of light, sweet crude in the area. Read more...
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