Ray Ring

Senior Editor

High Country News tries to lead the news coverage in the West, by digging up angles that are ignored by other journalists.

The latest examples:

The Associated Press sums up accidents and fatalities in the oil and gas industry, here, following my cover story, “Disposable Workers of the Oil and Gas Fields.”

Excerpt from AP:

Last year, four workers involved in oil and gas drilling died in Wyoming … (and) nationwide, 35 such workers died … (also) four workers in Wyoming and 67 nationwide died doing drilling-support jobs such as welding.

And the Rocky Mountain News has a series of stories about Colorado’s light-handed taxes on the oil and gas industry, here, following my cover story, “Gold from the Gas Fields.”
These are more signs, HCN plays a vital role in public discourse in the West.