Surface Concerns Story by Donna Gray
A crew works on the platform of a drilling rig for a new well near Parachute. Photo by Ed Kosmicki.
Dust rises from an access road (background) to a natural gas drilling rig near the Roan Plateau near Parachute. Peggy Utesch (above), of New Castle, sits in front of her new home. Utesch and her husband sold their home in nearby Silt after gas drilling rigs and gas wells started to operate nearby. Photos by Kevin Moloney.
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