battlement
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He said workers were monitoring constantly for odors and later determined most of them were associated with one of its pads outside Battlement Mesa.
From Washington Times • Oct. 6, 2018
Much of the measure’s impetus comes from drilling conflicts on the Front Range, but the Battlement Mesa drilling serves as a Western Slope example of the debate.
From Washington Times • Oct. 6, 2018
What’s changed, Farr said, is the drilling Ursa Resources has begun in Battlement Mesa, an unincorporated residential development of several thousand residents.
From Washington Times • Oct. 6, 2018
Battlement Mesa, the company town that was to be the hub of the new industry, still exists, but not for oil-shale workers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Battlement, bat′l-ment, n. a wall or parapet on the top of a building with openings or embrasures, originally used only on fortifications: the towering roof of heaven,—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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