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Bold Nebraska

"The oil companies have drilled there for 100 years, and now all the easy-to-get-out oil is gone and 'Big Oil' has to resort to riskier methods," Carson resident Glen White told the city council. "They get all the profits. We get all the risks. Their profits, our resources."

 

 

California City Temporarily Bans All New Oil Drilling Over Fracking Concerns

thinkprogress.org

The city of Carson says it needs time to study the effects of using fracking to extract oil.

 

 

 

 

Howling For Wolves

Here is Minnesota's "database" on wolf mortality. For 2 yrs, Howling for Wolves has made formal requests to the DNR for information on all sources of wolf deaths. We received a 6" stack of incident reports. An "Incident Report" is submitted by a DNR conservation officer, filed away, and not analyzed or available for public scrutiny. HFW learned there is no overall tracking of wolf diseases and deaths, and no publicly accessible data on wolf-ivestock conflicts for farmers eith...er. No one tracks when wolves are killed as incidental catches in traps or snare set for other animals.

An important editorial in The Forum this week states: "Legislation to temporarily suspend wolf hunting, trapping and snaring in Minnesota is a rational response to legitimate concerns about the management of the state’s wolf population."

Read: http://bit.ly/1fS9wts

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Rebuild The Dream's photo.

 

 

Elizabeth Warren is hands down the best person. (Thank you, Young Progressive Voices)

 

 

 

 

Grist.org

The oil and gas behemoth is returning to the Gulf of Mexico to drill, now that we've all forgotten that pesky little Deepwater Horizon thing.

 

BP is gonna drill in the Gulf of Mexico again, because THAT’s worked so well

grist.org

Maybe BP's learned its lesson and will be more careful ... and maybe tomorrow Tina Fey and I will become BFFs.

 

 

 

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EARTHWORKS

Injecting fracking wastewater underground causes earthquakes.

In 2012, California injected 23 billion gallons of waterwater from the oil and gas industry underground.

Anyone else see a problem here? http://shakyground.org

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Reich

In few days the Supreme Court will hand down its decision in “Shaun McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission” – which might use the bizarre logic of the Court's “Citizens United” decision to abandon all limits on what individuals can spend on political campaigns – another huge victory for the Koch brothers. I’m no conspiracy theorist, but it’s interesting that only months after “Citizens United” was decided, the Koch brothers' invite to their twice-yearly political retreat noted that previous guests at such meetings had included Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas (according to the New York Times).