EXHIBIT DOCUMENTS COAL-BED METHANE BOOM: “The New Gold Rush: Images of Coal-bed Methane” exhibit opened June 26 at the Esther and John Clay Fine Arts Gallery at Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne. The exhibit, showing through July 26, documents coal-bed methane development in northeastern Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. “The New Gold Rush” has already kicked up a fuss, as the energy industry has portrayed it has a one-sided attack on the issue. Earlier this year, the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper cancelled its scheduled showing. Ted Wood, one of the exhibition’s artists, told the Associated Press that “when you go after any sacred cow -- here in Wyoming that happens to be the energy industry -- you can expect it to create a little controversy.”
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