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Video of the Carbon County Commissioners Meeting, 8/18/2014
For those of you who couldn’t make yesterday’s meeting, here is a video of the proceedings. You can view the video in full screen mode by clicking on the icon to the left of the word “Vimeo” in the bottom … Continue reading
Overflow crowd at the Carbon County Commissioners meeting
10:30am. The meeting is just starting, and the room is overflowing. If you get this via email, click on the title of the post to view the video.
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Meeting today in Red Lodge! Frequently Asked Questions about the Silvertip citizen-initiated zone
This morning residents of the Silvertip community in Belfry will be presenting a zoning petition to the Carbon County Commission. Please go to support them if you can (details here). The petition is the result of months of hard work … Continue reading
Action alert: We need your attendance at a critical public meeting in Red Lodge on Monday, August 18
The location of the Belfry well Please read and plan to attend this important event. Who: Residents of the Silvertip community in Belfry are petitioning the Carbon County Commission to create a citizen initiated zone in their area. These are landowners … Continue reading
Repost: A visit to the front in the war against rural America
Last week I took advantage of the beautiful Montana spring weather to drive over to Belfry. There I could see for myself the site of the well recently permitted by the Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation (BOGC). It … Continue reading
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Tagged Bakken, Beartooth Mountains, Belfry, Bridger, Carbon County, Carbon County Research Council, ECA, ECA safety record, energy, Energy Corporation of America, ExxonMobil, Fracking, groundwater contamination, John Mork, Lawsuit, Montana Board of Oil and Gas, Montana Declaration of Rights, Northern Plains Resource Council, production foreman, Senator Tester, skiing, split estate, water, well permits, western meadowlark
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Citizen initiated zoning: a way to restore fairness to oil and gas drilling in Montana
Oil and gas drilling in Montana is fundamentally unfair to landowners. Because of the way the law and institutions are structured, landowners have few rights, and the deck is stacked unfairly in favor of those who profit from oil and gas … Continue reading
Local journalists elevate storytelling to high art in chronicling Bakken
Last June four Montana journalists set off for the Bakken region to do in depth coverage of the past, present and future of the region. Their goal, in what they have called The High Plains Heritage Project, is to produce a full documentary by … Continue reading
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Tagged Bakken, High Plains Heritage Project, Pete Tolton, Stan Parker
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We’re fracking in the dark. We need to know what we’ll find out when the light comes on.
We have frequently written about “unknown unknowns” — the long-term impacts of oil and gas drilling that we cannot anticipate. These include health impacts, water contamination, impacts on global warming, and so on. Drilling proponents often belittle these concerns, and … Continue reading
Fake environmental group produces ads and videos attacking people like you and me
There are some semi-humorous videos running around the Internet from a group called the Environmental Policy Alliance, a project of the Center for Organizational Research and Education. The organization is supposedly “devoted to uncovering the funding and hidden agendas behind … Continue reading
Colorado court decision favoring the oil and gas industry could actually be good news for us along the Beartooth Front
Last Thursday a judge in Boulder County, Colorado struck down a ban on fracking passed by the city of Longmont in November, 2012. In the ruling, Judge D. D. Mallard said Longmont’s ban clearly conflicted with the state’s regulations and its … Continue reading
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