Aaron Bowen practices on the driving range at the Three Crowns Golf Course on Thursday afternoon in Casper. The area, which was built on and around the site of the former Amoco Refinery, has been given certificates of completion for soil remedies by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
Louis Meeks holds a jar filled with water from a contaminated well on his property near Pavillion. Meeks and other property owners in the area blame oil and gas drilling for contamination of their drinking water. (Kerry Huller/Star-Tribune)
John Fenton and others examine Pavillion neighbor Louis Meeks' water. (Dustin Bleizeffer/Star-Tribune)
Natural gas wellheads and other production facilities are intermingled with farming and ranching operations around the rural community of Pavillion. (Dustin Bleizeffer/Star-Tribune)
EnCana Corp. placed two 2,400-gallon water containers inside this unit on Louis Meeks' property two years ago when water from his well was shown to be contaminated. The containers were removed this month. (Kerry Huller/Star-Tribune)
Guests gather around a barrel containing U3O8, or yellowcake, at Cameco Corp.'s Highland-Smith Ranch- in-situ uranium mine in Converse County. (Dustin Bleizeffer/Star-Tribune)
Natural gas drill rigs within the Pinedale Anticline natural gas field stand against the backdrop of the Wyoming Range near Pinedale earlier this year. Hydraulic fracturing has been instrumental in the development of the Pinedale Anticline and most other natural gas fields in Wyoming. (Mark Gocke/Star-Tribune correspondent)
Gary Hartman, former state district judge who's now an adviser to Gov. Dave Freudenthal, is heading up a state workplace safety task force. As a young adult, Hartman worked in the oil field. (Kerry Huller/Star-Tribune)
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