Archive for January, 2010
Otter Creek: We’re not done yet.
On December 21st the Montana State Land Board opened the bidding process to lease the coal beneath Otter Creek. All bids are due by the end of the day on February 8th. By the 9th we should know what kind of bids were recieved. At the next Land Board meeting, on February 16th, the decision […]
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Tags: Arch Coal, Coal, Denise Juneau, Land Board, Mining, Montana, Otter Creek, Powder River Basin, Tongue River Railroad
Mammoet. Dutch for “mammoth” …and that is exactly what we’re dealing with. Most people in northern Idaho and western Montana have probably heard about the giant trucks that are slated to cross the region on their way to Canada. Most don’t seem to know much else about it, though, which is not surprising. The Montana […]
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Tags: ExxonMobile, heavy haul, lochsa, Mammoet, MTDoT, Oil, shipping, Tar Sands, trucks
Stop Tar Sand Mining Now!
The world’s largest, and possibly dirtiest industrial operation has frightening implications reaching far from the northern Canadian forest in which it is centered. As peak oil passes us by and industrial civilization’s thirst for exploitation of fossil fuels continues to grow, northern Alberta, Canada has become host to what is perhaps the greatest organized danger […]
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Tags: Alberta, Canada, Climate Change, Deforestation, First Nations, Oil, Tar Sands
