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Category Archives: Community Organization, Politics and History
This post considers actions taken by Gallatin County a decade ago to stop coalbed methane drilling, and looks at whether that strategy might be adopted in Carbon County today as a way to keep the Environmental Corporation of America (ECA) … Continue reading
Wyoming natural gas bust leaves landowners and taxpayers holding the bag
What goes up must come down. The boom and bust economy that goes with oil and gas drilling can leave state and local governments and local landowners with big problems when boom times dry up. The New York Times reports … Continue reading
The Montana Chamber of Commerce is busy promoting their new “scientific” survey of Montana residents. The survey, conducted in October, shows that 59% of Montanans approve of fracking. It’s important to keep in mind that the Chamber is a political … Continue reading
Dallas and Fort Worth: 900 feet and a world apart
This is a tale of two cities. On December 11, 2013 the Dallas City Council voted 9-6 to approve a recommendation by the City Plan Commission that requires natural gas wells to be set back at least 1500 feet from … Continue reading
Video: The real cost of fracking
We’ve talked quite a bit about the impact of hydraulic fracturing on the environment and quality of life in the Bakken in North Dakota, but the Guardian today published Fracking hell: what it’s really like to live next to a … Continue reading
Activities week of December 9, 2013
Activities this week: Tuesday, December 10, 6pm: Forum on drilling in Carbon County and surrounding areas. Elks Club, 114 N Broadway, Red Lodge. The forum will examine the social consequences that might occur from high levels of oil extraction as … Continue reading
Fracking Homework
If you’re planning to attend the Carbon County Resource Council meeting in Red Lodge on December 4 or if you just want to do some quick homework about the community impacts of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), I recommend that you download … Continue reading
The Montana Oil and Gas Holiday Needs to End
Since the mid-1990s the Montana legislature has granted a tax holiday to oil and gas producers. They pay a tax of only 0.5 percent of the production value for the first 12 months of production on all wells and 18 … Continue reading
Carbon County Resource Council Meeting December 4
The Carbon County Resource Council will be holding a meeting on Wednesday, December 4 at 6:30pm at Honey’s Cafe, 209 S. Broadway in Red Lodge. The meeting is a follow up to a meeting held last month to discuss the … Continue reading
Don’t ‘Bakkenize’ Montana’s Beartooth Front
I’d like to reprint a guest editorial from the November 27, 2013 Billings Gazette. It’s written by Deborah Muth, Chair of the Carbon County Resource Council and Charles Sangmeister, President of the Stillwater Protection Association. The editorial was a response … Continue reading
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