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HIA in the News: "Battlement Mesa Residents Ask for Health Study in Advance of Drilling Agreement"
November 13, 2009
The Colorado Independent, by David O. Williams
"A group of citizen activists in the Western Slope retirement community of Battlement Mesa is hoping a type of health-impact study used successfully in the oil fields of Alaska’s North Slope can help them curtail pollution, traffic and noise from a looming natural gas drilling plan in their Garfield County town of 5,000...”
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