Federal and state agencies plan to apply some of the lessons learned from Project Rulison as they try to decide how close to another underground nuclear test site that natural gas development should ...

A Texas-based exploration company has rights to drill for natural gas near Project Rulison, the site of an underground nuclear test explosion three decades ago. Though the explosion on Sept. 10, 1969, ...

Project Rulison was the second experiment aimed at natural gas development, having been preceded by a 1967 blast in New Mexico. A third, Project Rio Blanco, occurred in 1973 in Rio Blanco County and ...

Project Rulison was a dumb thing to do back in 1969, and a state agency’s decision last week to lease the underground nuclear test site for gas drilling smacks of more risky action. In the 1960s, the ...

In the case of Project Rulison, to quote a government statement issued shortly after the blast, "the contaminants of concern for the subsurface of the Rulison Site are expected to include radioactive ...

Frank Smith, an energy organizer for the Western Colorado Congress, a regional coalition of Colorado citizens groups, talks about Project Rulison, one of three locations where the federal government ...

At first, it seemed no one could stop Project Rulison — a plan to frack Colorado's natural gas with a nuclear detonation. Set deep in a hole south of Battlement Mesa, the 40-kiloton bomb went off ...