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Lisbon Valley Blues

Images from a sacrifice zone

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Jonathan P. Thompson
Nov 15, 2022
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Sign and pumpjack in the Lisbon Valley. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.

My first impulse upon seeing the faded and tattered windsocks as I motored along a southeastern Utah backroad in early November was to look for the landing strip. There was none. Then I saw the distinctive infrastructure of an oil and gas well surrounded by WARNING POISON GAS KEEP OUT s…

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