The Land Desk

The Land Desk

Data Dump: Spills Happen

Visualizing three years of spills, leaks, releases, and other incidents in an energy sacrifice zone

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Jonathan P. Thompson
Apr 14, 2021
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The San Juan Basin, a 10,000-square-mile geological bowl in northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado, is a place of sparse and expansive beauty, where sky and land, thousands of years of culture and geology all mingle. It is also a hydrocarbon hot spot, a place that has been altered indelibly by 100 years of oil and gas development. It is one o…

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