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  • Transmission lies

    Ken Cole

    Against the so-called ‘need’ for new long-distance, high-voltage transmission lines Transmission lies Grist Environmental News and Commentary Carol A. Overland posits the idea that a new electrical grid is “an enabler of dysfunctional energy planning and profit-driven projects that are against the public interest.”

  • Groups sue to stop timber sale on shore of Hebgen Lake

    Ralph Maughan

    Groups cite harm to habitat occupied by grizzly bears- Groups sue to stop timber sale on shore of Hebgen Lake. Billings Gazette. AP

  • Cheatgrass to expand its range northward with climate change

    Ralph Maughan

    Yellow star thistle, knapweed to do likewise- On the plus side, it will get too hot for cheatgrass in some places, but it may be replaced by another invasive — red brome. Cheatgrass will migrate with climate change. LA Times.

  • Searchlight, Nevada versus Wind Goliath

    Ralph Maughan

    The folks in Harry Reid’s hometown are not thrilled about plans for wind turbine development- An interesting story from basinandrangewatch.org. Government Scoping Meeting: Residents React to Industrial Wind Farm Proposal. By LMC Searchlight, Nevada area map.

  • BLM and Forest Service Announce 2009 Grazing Fee

    Ken Cole

    The Subsidized Destruction of the American West Continues. $1.35 per AUM The Federal grazing fee for 2009 will be $1.35 per animal unit month (AUM) for public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and $1.35 per head month (HM) for lands managed by the Forest Service. The grazing fee for 2009 is the…

  • Major oil terminal beneath Redoubt Volcano could result in huge oil spill

    Ralph Maughan

    Status of Drift River terminal is not known due to homeland security secrecy- Will a natural disaster trigger an oil spill disaster? We don’t know because of lingering secrecy from the Bush Administration. Story: “Drift River Oil Terminal sits in harm’s way of volcano. SECRECY: Citing homeland security, officials give out little information about the…

  • Environmentalists setting up anti-oilsands training camp in Calgary

    Ralph Maughan

    There is going to be a big fight over this rapidly growing development as its external costs become more widely known- Environmentalists setting up anti-oilsands training camp in Calgary.  By Kelly Cryderman, Canwest News Service For more information, here is the blog “Oil Sands Watch.” It has interesting information like “Oil Sands Development Could Claim…

  • How Meat, Especially Beef, Contributes to Global Warming

    Ralph Maughan

    Those who write for this blog don’t think, “beef, it’s what for dinner.”  If you care about the future of humankind, at least it shouldn’t be. This from the Scientific American. How Meat Contributes to Global Warming: Producing beef for the table has a surprising environmental cost: it releases prodigious amounts of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.…

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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