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Last chance for your voice to be heard on chemical disclosure; email comments due to Board of Oil and Gas today by 5pm

Posted on September 24, 2018 by davidjkatz

This is an urgent request for your personal action. The Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation (BOGC) is about to pass a rule on the advance disclosure of the chemicals used in fracking. This rule trades the rights of landowners for the rights of oil and gas companies. It’s a bad trade, and only your voice can make a difference at this point.

Comments are due at by email at 5pm today. Everything you need to know to comment is in this post. Please spend five minutes to make your voice heard. Continue reading →

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Thanks to all who wrote: BLM will NOT sell leases on Beartooth Front next week

Posted on March 5, 2018 by davidjkatz

Good news for those of us working to maintain the balance between oil and gas development and the natural beauty and agricultural economy of the Beartooth Front.

Three leases in the Beartooth Foothills will not be put up for sale as planned next week, the BLM announced today. The parcels were scheduled to be part of an online auction on March 13.

Special thanks are due to those of you who wrote to the BLM last September to urge that these leases not be sold. Continue reading →

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Make your voice heard TODAY. Tell the Stillwater County Commissioners how you feel about landowner rights

Posted on March 2, 2018 by davidjkatz

Please make your voice heard. The Stillwater County Commissioners will be holding a public hearing to consider their proposed policy for citizen initiated zoning. The proposed policy is not a policy at all, but a thinly-veiled attempt to keep any … Continue reading →

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ACTION ALERT: Please write by September 20 to keep BLM from selling oil leases in Stillwater County

Posted on September 18, 2017 by davidjkatz

The Bureau of Land Management is proposing three oil and gas leases in Stillwater County for sale in March, 2018. Two are in Dean (MTM 105431-HW, MTM 79010-8R) and one is on East Fiddler Creek (MTM 79010-JJ). A public comment period is now open. Please make your voice heard by sending in comments about the lease by Wednesday, September 20.

Your comment is critical. The last time a lease was considered in Dean, it wound up being deferred, partly because there were 40 letters sent to BLM opposed to drilling.

Please forward this action alert to others who you think may be willing to send comments.

Comments should be emailed to: Continue reading →

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Time for the Montana Board of Oil and Gas to step forward on setbacks

Posted on August 7, 2015 by davidjkatz

The Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation (BOGC) will take up the issue of whether to begin rulemaking on establishing oil and gas setbacks — the minimum distance between oil and gas wells and homes or other occupied buildings … Continue reading →

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Action alert: We need your attendance at a critical public meeting in Red Lodge on Monday, August 18

Posted on August 14, 2014 by davidjkatz

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 →

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