Oil and Gas

  • More on leaky oil pipelines

    Ralph Maughan

    Several articles are relevant- Oil spill into Montana river raises scrutiny about nation’s pipelines. By Matthew Brown and Garance Burke. Associated Press. It turns out there are many oil pipelines under our rivers, great and small. They are subject to many hazards, and I should add that the House Republicans are busily trying cut the…

  • Tim DeChristopher and the feds (updated)

    Ralph Maughan

    Peaceful disruptor of BLM oil auction to be sentenced today by our ExxonMobil government- Bill Mckibben opines on today’s sentencing of Tim DeChristopher by a government that couldn’t find a single corrupt banker after they just about destroyed the economy back in 2008. Tim DeChristopher and the feds. By Bill Mckibben.  The Salt Lake Tribune.…

  • Exxon: Ruptured pipeline in Yellowstone River carried tar sands crude

    Ken Cole

    How bad is this going to get? Exxon: Ruptured pipeline carried tar sands crude. Laura Zuckerman – Reuters

  • Earth Firsters occupy Montana governor’s office (with update July 13)

    Brian Ertz

    At least they got a reception.  Sounds like fun. Earth Firsters, megaload protesters occupy governor’s office – Missoulian Schweitzer told the group he would not cede to their demands before they started playing the piano and dancing on the big table in the governor’s reception room in apparent frustration with the direction of the meeting.…

  • Frackers about to have their way with SW Idaho water supply

    Brian Ertz

    Closed Process Highlights Need For Meaningful State Environmental Review, Public Involvement With the recent discovery of natural gas in southwest Idaho many residents are concerned about their local watersheds.  They should be, fracking is an ugly business : Before 2005, regulation of fracking took place under the Safe Drinking Water Act. EPA was responsible for…

  • Oil pipeline ruptures. Massive pollution of Yellowstone River

    Ralph Maughan

    ExxonMobil pipeline under the Yellowstone River releases 30,000 – 50,000 gallons of crude into world famous river- It’s another one of those things they claimed was too unlikely to worry about. Now there is a large oil slick drifting down the Yellowstone River toward the Missouri, ruining riverside property, and polluting not just the river…

  • Idaho issues permits for chopped down megaloads (and more, 6-19 & 20)

    Ralph Maughan

    It turns out the size of these monster loads of oil equipment can be reduced- We kept hearing that they had to come over Highway 12 and they were “X” big, . . . end of discussion. That wasn’t so. Permits have now been issued for smaller, giant loads. However, will this mean twice as…

  • Megaloads video: Giant rig opponents say its your land, water and air versus Exxon

    Ralph Maughan

    Exxon Mobil is the world’s most profitable corporation- A new video about their megaloads through Idaho and Montana to their vast toxic pits in Alberta- Oil companies have colluded with the Idaho’s and Montana’s governors so they can make even more profits than if they built the machinery for the toxic Alberta tar sands mining…

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