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Curses, Fideled Again U.S. lawmakers see offshore drilling near Cuba and feel left out		09 May 2006	Daily Grist
Curses, Fideled Again U.S. lawmakers see offshore drilling near Cuba and feel left out The U.S. has a years-old ban against offshore drilling in the Florida Straits, but it looks like the area might get drilled anyway -- by Cuba. The island country has rights to resources in half of the straits under a 1977 agreement, which President Bush renewed for two years in December. Inste ...
Topics: China, Cuba, Florida, India, mining and drilling, news, oceans, politics (all these topics)

Dirk du Soleil Interior nominee Kempthorne backs away from plan to sell U.S. forests		05 May 2006	Daily Grist
Dirk du Soleil Interior nominee Kempthorne backs away from plan to sell U.S. forests Senate confirmation hearings began yesterday for Interior Secretary nominee Dirk Kempthorne, and oh, the fun that was had. One hot topic was the Bush administration's proposal to fund rural schools by selling thousands of acres of public land; the Dirkster, who supported sale of public lands when he ...
Topics: Department of Interior, mining and drilling, news, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

We'd Do Anything for Love (But We Won't Do That) Republican gas-price pander disgusts even pander-lovin' American people		01 May 2006	Daily Grist
We'd Do Anything for Love (But We Won't Do That) Republican gas-price pander disgusts even pander-lovin' American people Hollywood producers like to say that no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people. Hollywood producers, meet Senate Republicans. Their latest gas-price gambit, coordinated by Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) -- a legislator who puts the "less" ...
Topics: climate, energy, mining and drilling, news, politics (all these topics)

Throw in a Pony, and We'll Talk In lieu of real energy policy, senators propose sending people checks		28 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Throw in a Pony, and We'll Talk In lieu of real energy policy, senators propose sending people checks Apparently driven insane by high gasoline prices, congressfolk are reaching virtuosic heights of pandering and venality, approaching some sort of Platonic ideal of What's Wrong With Politics These Days. Exhibit A: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) just unveiled a proposal that would bribe th ...
Topics: climate, energy, mining and drilling, news, politics (all these topics)

Careful, The Last Hunter Who Crossed Cheney ... Hunters, anglers fight Bushies' efforts to sell or drill on public lands		21 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Careful, The Last Hunter Who Crossed Cheney ... Hunters, anglers fight Bushies' efforts to sell or drill on public lands Bush administration plans to sell off big chunks of public land and open other parcels to drilling are meeting stiff opposition from a traditionally Republican constituency: the hook-and-bullet crowd. Hunters and anglers anxious to protect fish and game are being wooed by ...
Topics: mining and drilling, news, outdoor recreation, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Spinning Isn't Everything; It's the Only Thing Alaska looks to controversial PR firm to promote Arctic Refuge drilling		18 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Spinning Isn't Everything; It's the Only Thing Alaska looks to controversial PR firm to promote Arctic Refuge drilling In the face of broad public opposition to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Alaska legislature has ... abandoned its push for drilling? Don't be silly! No, the legislature's hired a PR firm to sell the joys of drilling to a skeptical public. The firm expected to get the job, Pac/West Co ...
Topics: Alaska, mining and drilling, news (all these topics)

Dirk in a Full Nelson Debate over offshore drilling may hold up Kempthorne's confirmation		10 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Dirk in a Full Nelson Debate over offshore drilling may hold up Kempthorne's confirmation A Bush administration plan to open 2 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling has created rifts in Congress and may hold up Dirk Kempthorne's confirmation as interior secretary. The sentimentally named "Area 181," south of Pensacola, Fla., is estimated to have resource c ...
Topics: Department of Interior, Florida, mining and drilling, news, oceans (all these topics)

Carat Top Ringing in a new era of ethically and ecologically responsible jewelry		07 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Carat Top Ringing in a new era of ethically and ecologically responsible jewelry Did you know 30 tons of waste rock can be generated in producing one gold ring? Us neither, but now we're never getting married. Trying to keep a step ahead of consumers' growing social and environmental consciousness, the jewelry industry is making some changes. Some specialty outfits are marketing so-called ethical jewelry, or creatin ...
Topics: green living, mining and drilling, news (all these topics)

You Want a Lease of Me? Wyoming governor opposes federal drilling leases in national forest		03 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
You Want a Lease of Me? Wyoming governor opposes federal drilling leases in national forest Wyoming is plenty bullish on a local natural-gas boom -- but Gov. Dave Freudenthal (D) has put his foot down at the Wyoming Range, asking the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service to halt sales of drilling leases on 19,000 acres of western Wyoming's Bridger-Teton Nati ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, news, US Forest Service, Wyoming (all these topics)

Papua Goes After the Weasel Indonesia to Freeport: Clean up mining operations or we'll sue		24 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Papua Goes After the Weasel Indonesia to Freeport: Clean up mining operations or we'll sue Indonesia has warned New Orleans-based mining giant Freeport-McMoRan that it will sue if the company doesn't clean up its gold and copper mining operation in Papua -- ideally in the next two to three years. Politicians and eco-advocates have charged Freeport with polluting streams and river ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Indonesia, mining and drilling, news (all these topics)

Freeport Your Mine, and Unrest Will Follow Mining companies dig up trouble in Indonesia		21 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Freeport Your Mine, and Unrest Will Follow Mining companies dig up trouble in Indonesia Two U.S.-based mining companies are digging up trouble in Indonesia. A protest last week demanding closure of a Freeport-McMoRan gold and copper mine in the Papua province led to the deaths of at least three police officers and one soldier, then to the military seizing control of the provincia ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Indonesia, mining and drilling, news (all these topics)

It's D�j� Ew All Over Again Drill-happy senators go after the Arctic Refuge yet again		17 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
It's D�j� Ew All Over Again Drill-happy senators go after the Arctic Refuge yet again It seems like just three months ago that oil-thirsty congresscritters were pawing at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge like horny adolescents buzzed on wine coolers. Oh, wait, it was just three months ago. The effort to drill in the refuge "keeps coming back like a recurring nightmare," said Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.). Tel ...
Topics: Arctic, mining and drilling, news (all these topics)

Stick It Where the Sun Does Shine Senate panel clears drilling expansion off Florida coast		09 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Stick It Where the Sun Does Shine Senate panel clears drilling expansion off Florida coast The specter of new drilling in the Gulf of Mexico loomed a little larger yesterday, as the Senate Energy Committee approved a bill to open millions of acres about 100 miles off the Florida coast to oil and gas exploration. Now, please get out your scorecards and sharpen your No. 2 pencils: Florida Sens. Mel Martinez (R) ...
Topics: Florida, mining and drilling, news, politics (all these topics)

We Ain't Sayin' They're Gold Diggers ... Oh Wait, Yes We Are Mining industry tries to clean up its reputation		07 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
We Ain't Sayin' They're Gold Diggers ... Oh Wait, Yes We Are Mining industry tries to clean up its reputation This may surprise you, but the mining industry has an image problem. It's awash in record profits, but as it exhausts easy-to-reach mineral deposits and moves into more remote areas, it is under increased pressure to work in an environmentally and socially conscious way. (Also at stake is funding from the World Bank, which ...
Topics: mining and drilling, news (all these topics)

Florida, Come and Rock the Offshore Shot Congress and Bush admin push to open offshore areas to drilling		03 Mar 2006	Daily Grist

Topics: California, energy, Florida, mining and drilling, natural gas, oceans, oil, politics (all these topics)

Guess That Makes Us Punstitutes BLM focuses on drilling at expense of wildlife, critics charge		23 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Guess That Makes Us Punstitutes BLM focuses on drilling at expense of wildlife, critics charge Wildlife biologists at the Bureau of Land Management office in Pinedale, Wyo., are finding their talents put to unusual use: reviewing drilling-permit requests. Western Wyoming has been a natural-gas drilling mecca for the last five years, during which its populations of mule deer and bree ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, news, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Brave Newmont World Newmont Mining to pay Indonesia $30 million to settle pollution suit		17 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Brave Newmont World Newmont Mining to pay Indonesia $30 million to settle pollution suit Colorado-based Newmont Mining Corp. has agreed to pay $30 million to the government of Indonesia to settle a long-running pollution lawsuit, but the parties have agreed to disagree about the pesky question of whether, um, any illegal pollution occurred. Indonesia's civil ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Indonesia, mining and drilling, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Derrick Cheater Bush admin proposes drilling off Florida, Virginia, Alaska coasts		09 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Derrick Cheater Bush admin proposes drilling off Florida, Virginia, Alaska coasts When President Bush said "America is addicted to oil," we thought ... wait, did we say this already? Yesterday, the administration proposed new oil and gas drilling off the coasts of Florida, Virginia, and Alaska -- including areas covered by a long-standing moratorium on offsh ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, Florida, mining and drilling, news, oceans, Virginia (all these topics)

Money for Nothin' Bush's 2007 budget includes Arctic Refuge drilling, cuts EPA funding		07 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Money for Nothin' Bush's 2007 budget includes Arctic Refuge drilling, cuts EPA funding Unsurprisingly, greens will find little to love in President Bush's proposed $2.77 trillion budget for fiscal year 2007. It calls for oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, estimating $7 billion in revenue by 2008 from leasing drilling rights -- nearly triple the $2.4 billion forecast in la ...
Topics: climate, energy, mining and drilling, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Solution Finds New Problem Republicans in Congress reanimate efforts to drill in Arctic Refuge		26 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Solution Finds New Problem Republicans in Congress reanimate efforts to drill in Arctic Refuge Iran -- the world's fourth-largest oil producer -- has threatened to cut oil exports if other nations impose economic sanctions to punish it for restarting its nuclear-power program. Some analysts say oil prices could spike to $100 a barrel if Iran stopped exports entirely. In response to this geopolitical ...
Topics: Arctic, energy, Iran, mining and drilling, news, oil (all these topics)

Strange Ted Fellow Ted Stevens, thwarted on Arctic Refuge, threatens to take toys home		03 Jan 2006	Daily Grist

Topics: Arctic, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

Not Shafted Yet Controversial mining-law revisions dropped from budget bill		14 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Not Shafted Yet Controversial mining-law revisions dropped from budget bill You might think we could take it for granted that millions of acres of national parks, forests, and other federal lands won't be sold off to developers, but these days, it's worthy of celebration: Late yesterday, struggling to pass a big budget bill before the holiday break, Republicans in Congress withdrew a provision to revamp federal mining l ...
Topics: mining and drilling, news, politics (all these topics)

Haul Out the Folly White House makes last-ditch effort to open Arctic Refuge to drilling		13 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Haul Out the Folly White House makes last-ditch effort to open Arctic Refuge to drilling The Bush administration is mounting a last-ditch effort to persuade Congress to approve drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before lawmakers break for the holidays. Interior Secretary Gale Norton and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao are out furiously shopping talking points: It would supply New Hampshire's oil needs ...
Topics: Arctic, mining and drilling, news, politics (all these topics)

All That's Gold Does Not Glitter Indonesian judge tosses out pollution suit against mining giant Newmont		18 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
All That's Gold Does Not Glitter Indonesian judge tosses out pollution suit against mining giant Newmont This week, an Indonesian judge threw out a $133 million civil suit against Colorado-based Newmont Mining Corp., the world's largest gold miner. Indonesia Environment Minister Rachmat Witular filed the lawsuit in April, charging that a now-closed Newmont gold operation ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Indonesia, mining and drilling, news, toxics (all these topics)

The Rend Is Near Senate votes to keep Arctic Refuge drilling in budget bill		03 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
The Rend Is Near Senate votes to keep Arctic Refuge drilling in budget bill The campaign to keep oil drills out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has just been dealt what could be a fatal blow. Yesterday, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) introduced an amendment to drop refuge-drilling language from a filibuster-proof federal budget bill; today, the Senate voted down that amendment, 48 to 51. "This is too ...
Topics: Arctic, mining and drilling, news, politics (all these topics)

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