Oil and Gas
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Oil and gas development of the Wyoming Mountain Range is very unpopular- Folks in NW Wyoming are rejoicing that the Bridger-Teton National Forest has announced the rejection of some of the last of the requested natural gas leases in the Wyoming Mountain Range 20 miles NW of Pinedale (30 miles southeast of Jackson Hole). Forest…
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Report on last week’s hearing predicts the decision on the megaloads will be close- Having won a hard fought battle to intervene on the decision whether to allow the first megaloads of oil equipment up Highway 12 and over Lolo Pass, the full hearing last week pitted local residents and the Boise based law firm,…
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Wyoming Range Legacy Act didn’t protect 77,000 acres of the Wyoming Range. New approach to be tried? A lot of folks thought the tremendous victory of The Wyoming Range Legacy Act signed by President Obama last year stopping new oil or gas leasing on 1.2 million acres in the Wyoming Range and Salt River Ranges…
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Public input is required, but conditional permits are issued- Note: the hearing will be on Friday, Nov. 19 in Boise. The hearing will be at ITD Headquarters in Boise, 3311 W. State Street. (208) 334-8000 Advocates for the West won a brief victory Friday on behalf of local residents of Highway 12. These temporarily block…
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The Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan are losing sage grouse fast. So fast, that the birds may disappear entirely from the Canadian landscape. Industry blamed for bird’s demise – Sage grouse on path to extinction – Edmonton Journal Unrestrained gas development in southern Alberta could drive the sage grouse to extinction in this province…
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Profound changes to the entire ecology of the Gulf This is part of what makes Obama/Salazar appear tone deaf to what occurred during the Gulf Oil Spill and I think it played a big part in people’s loss of faith in his administration and big losses seen in the Congress by Democrats. Rather than using…
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Oversized, outsized equipment protest. . . the first of years of citizen anger against environmental disruption and traffic delays? It seems to me that this will not be a one time event because the passage of this huge equipment through north central Idaho and then Montana will be ongoing for many years. Missoula demonstrators protest…
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National newspaper notices importance of the struggle of Idaho and Montana citizens against international oil- Oil Sands Effort Turns on a Fight Over a Road. By Tom Zelller. New York Times. I wish the NYT had also exposed the sellout to the oil companies by the states’ politicians.