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At their request, EARTHWORKS provides research, campaigning, and technical support to local communities and grassroots groups around the world, from Yarnell, Arizona to Tambogrande, Peru. And we work with communities to achieve local solutions that can help set a national or global precedent.

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Oil and Gas Community Voices:

Decatur, Texas: When The Drilling Starts -- a family's story from the Barnett Shale gas play in north Texas.
DISH, Texas: One woman's struggle with toxics in the Barnett Shale
Landowner stories from North America's oil and gas fields

Community Voices

Western Shoshone Nation, USA

The 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley between the US government and the Western Shoshone Nation recognized the Western Shoshone people as the landowner of Shoshone lands, entitled to royalties for the extractive activities. But no royalties have ever been paid.