Oil and Gas

  • Clinton-Era Secretary Blasts Interior; Scientists Say Salazar Should Quit

    Brian Ertz

    Scientists & Conservation Groups: Time for Salazar to step down Clinton-Era Secretary Blasts Interior; Scientists Say Salazar Should Quit featured in the New York Times Read the letter The Gulf Coast disaster is a cataclysmic failure. It’s a failure of insatiable industrial greed. But to leave it at that – to blame BP and demand…

  • Stop Alberta oil expansion

    Ralph Maughan

    Stop the slow motion “gulf disaster” of Alberta tar sands oil- Stop Alberta oil expansion. Guest column by Tom Woodbury. Western Watersheds Project. Montana Office. It’s bad news for Idaho and Montana highways, but much more for Montana the world at large.

  • Gulf disaster stirs worries in Rockies

    Ralph Maughan

    Could anything similar happen despite Wyoming’s inland location? The corrupt and discredited Minerals Management Service (MMS) both regulates and collects royalties from off-shore oil and gas. Inland, the BLM does the same, and that agency is full of problems too.  You have to wonder if Salazar has been on the job correcting the BLM’s decline…

  • The Spill, The Scandal and the President

    Ken Cole

    The inside story of how Obama failed to crack down on the corruption of the Bush years – and let the world’s most dangerous oil company get away with murder A revealing article in Rolling Stone points out how Obama and Salazar did nothing to reform the well known corruption at MMS. It is expected…

  • BP Well Bore And Casing Integrity May Be Blown, Says Florida’s Sen. Nelson

    Ken Cole

    The News from the Gulf is getting worse and worse. It’s almost paralyzing. Essentially, what the Senator is saying is that the pipe leading down to the oil may be leaking.  The oil isn’t just leaking from the pipe at the top but that it may be leaking into the ground from lower and there…

  • Big Oil wants a permanent corridor through the Lolo

    Ralph Maughan

    More on the attempt to make U.S. Highway 12 an oil industry corridor- This from the new group, the Rural People of Highway 12. U.S. Highway 12: Idaho’s Northwest Passage Scenic Byway and All-American Road • • • Big Oil: One-Time Deal or Permanent Takeover? Promoters of turning Idaho’s Northwest Passage Scenic Byway and All-American…

  • Missoulans protest Alberta-bound tar sands equipment trucking

    Ralph Maughan

    Over 200 trips of these giant oil equipment pieces to go through U.S. 12 in Idaho and NW Montana- I think perhaps there has been too much attention in this forum on elk in Lolo.  Elk are important, but fishing, scenery, wilderness, and property of local people are more important. U.S.Highway 12 is one of…

  • BP oil spill could spread to Atlantic Ocean

    Ralph Maughan

    As the slick is posed to hit western Florida coast, a model predicts a much wider spread- BP oil spill could spread to Atlantic Ocean. Christian Science Monitor. This comes amid predictions that the gusher won’t be stopped until relief wells intersect the oil reservoir in August.  Even then, relief wells sometimes fail to work.…

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