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  • Alberta's oil sands development is the most destructive project on Earth

    Ralph Maughan

    Yes it produces oil, but also more negative externalities (environmental and other damage) than any other on-going project on the planet, according to an Canadian environmental group. Environmentalists’ report to call for Ottawa to act on oil sands. By Bill Curry. The Globe and Mail View. Toxic Alberta. Part of a 15 part series.

  • Wyoming Range bill to get US Senate panel hearing this month – (Feb. 2008)

    Ralph Maughan

     There is good news on efforts to protect the Wyoming Range from the drillers. Wyoming Range bill to get February hearing. By Cory Hatch. Jackson Hole Daily. The Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold the hearing on the Wyoming Range Legacy Act of 2007 at 2:30 p.m.…

  • Alberta protesters furious over wolf kill

    Ralph Maughan

    Alberta protesters furious over wolf kill. By Jim Farrell. Edmonton Journal. The government wants to kill wolves to protect caribou, but the caribou have been disrupted by all the natural gas development and exploration in the Rocky Mountain foothills.

  • Sublette County, WY supports Green River dam

    Ralph Maughan

    A stupid program designed to help a tiny number of people in a vain attempt to “help to safeguard the County’s economic and cultural viability” (the purpose, according to the County Commissiors). If these people wanted to safeguard their economic and cultural viability, they should have opposed the massive natural gas industrialization of Sublette County.…

  • Forest Service could quash Wyoming Range leases

    Ralph Maughan

    This doesn’t meant they will, but Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo has a bill to stop leasing and buyout and permanently retire areas already leased. Story in the Casper Star Tribune. By Chris Merrill. Update Gov. Freudenthal seeks delay on Wyo. Range drilling plan. AP For those folks who love the mountains adjacent to the Tetons…

  • Sage Grouse need more help, biologists agree

    Ralph Maughan

    “Wildlife biologists from five Western states have reached consensus on the latest science regarding sage grouse and energy development. Despite much bristling from those in the oil and gas industry in recent months, the science does indicate that the current level of federal restrictions on the industry is not enough to adequately protect the iconic…

  • Gas wells to be drilled upset local residents of Hoback area

    Ralph Maughan

    These natural gas wells are a movement into a new area; one that is scenic, wildlife rich and where people live. As such it is causing a lot of controversy in the area south of Jackson Hole. Part of it is in a national forest roadless area too (Grayback IRA). Hoback wells process frustrates opponents.…

  • Public Lands Tag Sale

    Ralph Maughan

    Diary of a Mad Voter: Joan McCarter. Public Lands Tag Sale. By Joan McCarter. New West. While media talks about the horse race for President, it’s going to be a year of plunder on the public lands, and most it will not be covered. McCarter writes about what is going on, starting with the Bush…

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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