From the daily archives: Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Plan approved for drilling 18,000 gas wells in Montana

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Every well pad disrupts from 5 to 20 acres-

Leaking gas is a potent climate changer. Disrupted soil does not sequester carbon. Native vegetation at the well site is almost impossible to restore. Coalbed methane wells produce huge amounts of saline (generally unreusuable water).

Story by Matthew Brown. Plan […]

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We need Interior decorating (Not Salazar, nor Kemmis)

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28-year drift toward “disastrous . . . consensus decision-making” on public lands-

“We need Interior decorating.” By Brian Horejsi. Colorado Springs Independent.

My view is that consensus decision-making, bargaining over what the rules and law are, destroys respect for the law and makes the country lawless, as we have seen with the Bush Administration […]

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Off-road vehicle use fuels tension, violence across U.S.

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Most violence over private property and those who try to enforce the law-

This is according to USA Today. By Emily Bazar.

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey