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Comments on ECA presentation at Carbon County Commission, 9/8/14: Part 2
This post is part of a series analyzing the ECA presentation at the Carbon County Commission this week. As I see it, the interaction between a company that is planning major industrial operations and the community in which they plan … Continue reading
Comments on ECA presentation at Carbon County Commission, 9/8/14: Part 1
The video of Monday’s Carbon County Commission meeting is very revealing and worth looking at in detail. I’m going to do three posts commenting on Energy Corporation of America’s (ECA) presentation at the meeting, providing my interpretation of what was … Continue reading
Video: ECA presentation at Carbon County Commissioners meeting, September 8, 2014
Yesterday Energy Corporation of America representative Seth Nolte made a presentation at the Carbon County Commissioners meeting in Red Lodge. All three Commissioners and a good crowd of local citizens were on hand. I just received this in the middle of … Continue reading
Reminder: ECA at Carbon County Commission on Monday, September 8 at 10:00 am (with John Mork video)
A reminder that Energy Corporation of America (ECA) will be making a presentation in Red Lodge on Monday morning, September 8, at 10am. Please attend if you can. It is important to hear what they have to say. More information … Continue reading
Action alert: Energy Corporation of America to present at Carbon County Commission on Monday, September 8
Here’s a rare opportunity to hear from the horse’s mouth what’s going on with oil drilling along the Beartooth Front. Energy Corporation of America (ECA) is on the agenda for the Carbon County Commission meeting on Monday, September 8 at … Continue reading
Posted in Community Organization
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Article in The Local Rag uses half-truths, lies and plain stupidity to promote oil drilling
I’m reluctant to use this word when describing the writings of others, because I’m sure it applies to mine from time to time, but this is just a stupid misunderstanding of the process. Continue reading
Let’s put one of the oil industry’s great lies to rest once and for all: a list of 243 water wells contaminated by drilling activity in Pennsylvania
You’ll find this quote from former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson in pretty much every pro-drilling article ever written: “I’m not aware of any proven case where the fracking process itself has affected water.” If you’ve followed the EPA’s mishandling of … Continue reading
The EPA is not testing to see if injection fluids are contaminating our water. We need to take responsibility for doing it ourselves.
Your tax dollars at work… Last month the federal Government Accounting Agency released a report on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program to protect underground water sources from the injection of fluids associated with oil and gas drilling. If you’re a … Continue reading
Gas flaring is dangerous to our health and environment. There’s one way to stop it. Locally.
Gas flaring, the deliberate open-air burning of natural gas, is a practice common in the largest shale oil plays where natural gas is a byproduct of oil extraction. There are some legitimate reasons to allow limited use of flaring. After a shale oil/gas … Continue reading
Posted in Fracking Information
Tagged Bakken, citizen initiated zoning, Earthworks, Flaring, Natural gas
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Preserve the Beartooth Front 