by faster | Jun 11, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: Gizmodo DATE: June 11, 2021 SNIP: Next week, dozens of teachers from North Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, South Dakota, and Iowa will descend on Bismarck State College in North Dakota for the annual three-day Lignite Energy Council Teacher’s Seminar. There,...
by faster | May 26, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: New York Times DATE: May 26, 2021 SNIP: The Biden administration is defending a huge Trump-era oil and gas project in the North Slope of Alaska designed to produce more than 100,000 barrels of oil a day for the next 30 years, despite President Biden’s pledge...
by faster | Feb 25, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: February 25, 2021 SNIP: Jill Morrison has seen how the bust of oil and gas production can permanently scar a landscape. Near her land in north-east Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, where drilling started in 1889, more than 2,000 abandoned wells...
by faster | Feb 4, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: February 4, 2021 SNIP: Plans for the UK’s first deep coalmine in more than 30 years have led to local divisions in Cumbria, even as it becomes an international issue over the country’s climate change commitments. James Hansen, one of the...
by faster | Dec 14, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Narwhal DATE: December 14, 2020 SNIP: There are more than a trillion litres of toxic oilsands waste stored in tailings ponds near Alberta’s Athabasca River — and they’re leaking. Yes, we now have “scientifically valid evidence” that the ponds meant to...
