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Climate Change

  • Plan approved for drilling 18,000 gas wells in Montana

    Ralph Maughan

    Every well pad disrupts from 5 to 20 acres- Leaking gas is a potent climate changer. Disrupted soil does not sequester carbon. Native vegetation at the well site is almost impossible to restore. Coalbed methane wells produce huge amounts of saline (generally unreusuable water). Story by Matthew Brown. Plan approved for gas wells. AP

  • Idaho is a manure gold mine. Methane can be captured from the state's pile of muck

    Ralph Maughan

    Potent greenhouse gas (methane) from mega-feedlots could become fuel rather than fueling global warming- Idaho’s energy czar wants to harness power of manure. By The Associated Press Southern Idaho is full of vast stinky livestock feedlots (dairy and beef). Here is one way to amelioate the situation

  • The right way to do solar power

    Ralph Maughan

    Don’t take up huge swaths of land- I found this video that shows solar power underway with a deemphasis on remote solar collection in land-destroying mega-farm and vast transmission lines to electricity load centers. Orchards of the sun on space.com.  Let’s hope Obama will go this route. Not only is it better for our environment,…

  • Some livestock groups panic over rumors of a tax on cow's methane emissions

    Ralph Maughan

    Hopefully this tax is not just a rumor- Farmer’s Freak about Potential ‘Cow Tax’ on Cows’ Methane Emission. WWP blog. Methane is 26 times as potent a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide and cows belch and fart a tremendous amount of it. Feedlots could capture it, however, and turn it into much less polluting energy…

  • Longtime Head of House Energy Panel Is Ousted

    Ralph Maughan

    Clean air champion Henry Waxman will be installed- John Dingell of Michigan has chaired the powerful Energy and Commerce committee for many years (when the Democrats have controlled the House). This powerful committee has jurisdiction of the Clean Air Act as well as many other matters. He has been the “Big 3” auto’s point man…

  • Bush's seven deadly environmental sins

    Ralph Maughan

    How Bush made a mockery of the nation’s environmental laws and values — and what Obama must do to get us back on track- Story in Salon.com (Salon Magazine). By Katharine Mieszkowski The article doesn’t just speak of Bush sin, but how Obama can redeem on the environment.

  • Global Warming Is Killing Frogs And Salamanders In Yellowstone Park, Researchers Say

    Ralph Maughan

    Disappearance of ponds in Yellowstone lead to great loss of frogs and salamanders in Yellowstone- I guess we would call them “old-timers” now — folks like myself — but I remember there used to be many more ponds on the Northern Range of the Park. From the road the loss is especially apparent near Junction…

  • Idaho conservation politics: Minnick and Sali disagree on climate change

    Ralph Maughan

    Representative Sali says no human caused climate change- Democrat Walt Minnick is challenging one-term Republican U.S. Representative in Idaho’s first congressional district. Polls show the race to be close. Rocky Barker has a report this morning on a clear difference (there are many differences, but this applies to the topics commonly discussed on this forum).…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

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