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The practice of fracking, or hydraulic fracture drilling has been a highly damaging practice wherever it is used and now Congress is asking the EPA to take a harder look. Diesel Use in Gas Drilling Cited as Violation of Safe-Water Law. New York Times
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Opponents of the megaloads drop fight on the first four- Having lost before the Idaho Department of Transportation, opponents of the oil megaloads will no longer try to stop the first four of them. These are bound for the existing oil refinery in Billings, Montana. The next 200 megaloads (not approved for now) are for what…
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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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Suit Filed to Protect One of Nevada’s Largest Bat Roosts, National Park For immediate release – January 25, 2011 Contacts: Jon Marvel, Executive Director Western Watersheds Project, 208.788.2290 Rob Mrowka, Center for Biological Diversity, 702.249.5821 LAS VEGAS, Nev – Two conservation groups and three Indian Tribes filed suit today to protect a pristine mountain valley…
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$1000 for poacher in the Poudre Canyon- That is near Ft. Collins, CO. Story: Colorado Crimes: Bighorn sheep poacher wanted, $1,000 reward. By Kiernan Maletsky. The Latest Word I put this story up after a request from a blog reader near the area.
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During the winter, the melting Arctic is like opening the refrigerator door . . . The refrigerator gets warmer, and the room (the lower latitudes) get colder. The cold winters of late might be a climate change rather than random variability. The explanation would be the weakening of the cyclonic winds that keep the extreme…
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More reporting about the bighorn/domestic sheep disease study Other than the study itself, this is the first time that I’ve heard Dr. Srikmaran talk about last year’s study which confirms that domestic sheep diseases kill bighorn sheep. “I am not that happy about this finding. Some people’s livelihood depends on domestic sheep,” [But the] “organisms…
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Some would say this guy had it coming- What is it with these wolf-hating, deer and elk poachers? Of course, Nugent is famous. He’s in another category from most of these poachers. This news is from August. We had missed it, but no one mentioned it in the long discussion of the subject. Guess that…