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What's the Time? It's Time to Get Iliamna Proposed Alaskan mine may threaten salmon wonderland		26 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
What's the Time? It's Time to Get Iliamna Proposed Alaskan mine may threaten salmon wonderland Near the shores of vast Lake Iliamna in southern Alaska, locals are worried that a huge proposed open-pit mine at the region's headwaters could imperil legendary salmon runs. The story is familiar enough: an economically depressed, mineral-rich area gets courted by slick mining-company officials promising jobs ...
Topics: Alaska, fishing, lakes, mining and drilling, news (all these topics)

A Matter of Great Export Arctic Refuge oil could be sent overseas		19 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
A Matter of Great Export Arctic Refuge oil could be sent overseas A portentous U.S. commitment, sold with slogans about freedom and national security, that turns out to be all about the oil industry. No, not that one. We're talking about drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Drilling proponents cite the fact that the U.S. imports most of the oil it uses, thus leaving it dependent on some rather g ...
Topics: Arctic, energy, mining and drilling, news, oil (all these topics)

The Gold Shoulder Latin American activists have string of successes against gold mines		15 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
The Gold Shoulder Latin American activists have string of successes against gold mines Even with mining laws, environmental laws, and international free-trade agreements heavily weighted against them, activists in Latin America have had a string of recent successes stopping open-pit and cyanide heap-leach mines from polluting their groundwater and decimating hillsides. In Peru last November, p ...
Topics: Central America, Costa Rica, mining and drilling, news, Peru (all these topics)

Quibbles and Bits New strategies aim to limit drilling impact in Western U.S.		13 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Quibbles and Bits New strategies aim to limit drilling impact in Western U.S. As pressure mounts from greens and the hook-and-bullet crowd to slow the pace of energy development in the American West, some companies are moving to support conservation research and employ strategies to lessen their impact. One such method, called "directional drilling," involves the use of high-tech equipment to operate ...
Topics: mining and drilling, news, placemaking, West (all these topics)

Getting Cross Guatemalan Catholic church protests mining project		13 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Getting Cross Guatemalan Catholic church protests mining project Catholic Church officials in Guatemala have become unlikely activists in a fight against a major open-pit gold mine being carved out in the mountains near San Miguel Ixtahuacan. Speaking from the pulpit, on a church-owned radio station, and during street demonstrations, church leaders have been educating parishioners, mos ...
Topics: Central America, mining and drilling, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

No Refuge Is an Island Arctic Refuge drilling debate misses the big picture	Robert L. Fischman	12 Apr 2005	Soapbox
Sun-drenched Pelican Island in Florida is about as far from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as you can get in the United States. At first blush, the 5,000-acre warm marsh would seem to have little connection to the 19 million-acre stretch of mountains and tundra. But they are inextricably linked. A buff-breasted sandpiper. � Subhankar Banerjee, from his book Arctic National Wildlife ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, mining and drilling, wetlands, wilderness (all these topics)

Coast Busters Oil and gas drillers set their sights on U.S. coastal areas		08 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Coast Busters Oil and gas drillers set their sights on U.S. coastal areas A federal moratorium on oil and gas drilling off U.S. coasts has been in place for 24 years, but there are signs -- the debate over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge being just one -- that it may be in danger. The oil and gas industry has been heavily lobbying state governments, where they believe the decis ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, natural gas, news, oceans, oil (all these topics)

Undermined Ruling halts proposed mine under wilderness area, for now		31 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Undermined Ruling halts proposed mine under wilderness area, for now Plans to build a massive copper and silver mine beneath Montana's Cabinet Mountain Wilderness was successfully halted (again) yesterday when a federal judge ruled that U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials put the area's bull trout and grizzly bears at risk by approving the mine. The ruling orders the FWS to amend the b ...
Topics: mining and drilling, Montana, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

Climb Every Mountain. Then Remove It. Activists plan summer of mountaintop-removal protests		29 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Climb Every Mountain. Then Remove It. Activists plan summer of mountaintop-removal protests Environmental activists are planning a summer of focused protest against mountaintop-removal coal mining in West Virginia and surrounding coal states. "Mountain Justice Summer" will call for nonviolent protests against this highly destructive mining technique, whereby entire mountaintops ...
Topics: coal, energy, mining and drilling, news, Tennessee, West Virginia (all these topics)

Behind Enemy Livestock Ranchers, greens unite to fight oil and gas wells in West		24 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Behind Enemy Livestock Ranchers, greens unite to fight oil and gas wells in West Ranchers and environmentalists have traditionally gone together like chocolate and, uh, people who really hate chocolate. But of late, they have been overlooking past tussles to fight a common enemy: increasingly ubiquitous oil and gas drilling in the Western U.S. The ranchers say the drilling process often sickens or kills livestock ...
Topics: mining and drilling, news, ranching, West (all these topics)

Crude Awakening An open letter to Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska	Terry Tempest Williams	18 Mar 2005	Soapbox
Dear Sen. Stevens, This week you got your wish: a 51 to 49 vote against the Cantwell amendment and in favor of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Caribou in the Arctic Refuge. Photo: Ken Whitten, Wilderness Society. The crude minds have spoken. Finally. You told your colleagues and anyone else who would listen that you have been clinically depressed for 24 years -- the same 24 y ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, energy, mining and drilling, oil, politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Bummer Senate votes in favor of drilling in Arctic Refuge		16 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Bummer Senate votes in favor of drilling in Arctic Refuge Oil companies are closing in on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In a crushing blow to those who have long fought to preserve the unspoiled Alaskan wildland, the Senate this afternoon voted 51-49 against an amendment by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) that would have stripped from a budget bill a provision clearing the way for oil and gas drilling in t ...
Topics: Arctic, mining and drilling, news, politics (all these topics)

Post No Bills Eco-activists arrested for protesting near bank chief's home		14 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Post No Bills Eco-activists arrested for protesting near bank chief's home Three activists with the Rainforest Action Network were arrested and fined earlier this month after posting signs on telephone poles and trees near the home of J.P. Morgan Chase CEO William Harrison. Designed to look like Old West "wanted" posters, the fliers read "Wanted -- William 'Billy the Kid' Harrison" and urge ...
Topics: business, logging, mining and drilling, news (all these topics)

Things to Do in Denver When You're Ill Newmont Mining fights off lawsuit over mercury pollution in Peru		14 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Things to Do in Denver When You're Ill Newmont Mining fights off lawsuit over mercury pollution in Peru Continuing its energetic pursuit of the Worst Global Corporate Citizen Award, Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. is headed into legal battle with Peruvian peasants suffering long-term health consequences from mercury contamination around one of the company's gold mines. In June of 2000, a truck carrying ...
Topics: Colorado, mining and drilling, news, Peru, toxics (all these topics)

Our Life With the Drill Kill Kult House bill would end U.S. offshore drilling bans		11 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Our Life With the Drill Kill Kult House bill would end U.S. offshore drilling bans Legislation being drafted in the House Resources Committee would end 23-year-old bans on new offshore oil and gas drilling in the U.S. Still not formally introduced, the legislation, dubbed the State Enhanced Authority for Coastal and Offshore Resources Act, would expand state control over offshore drilling and u ...
Topics: mining and drilling, news, oceans, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Idiotarod Republicans are after the Arctic Refuge again		10 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
The Idiotarod Republicans are after the Arctic Refuge again Undeterred by consistent public opposition and bipartisan objections, a number of Republicans are once again attempting to get oil drillers into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Senate Budget Committee Chair Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) slipped ANWR into a budget resolution yesterday, which unlike standard legislation cannot be defeated by a filibuster. O ...
Topics: Arctic, mining and drilling, news, politics (all these topics)

Libby, Libby, Libby on the Liable, Liable, Liable W. R. Grace faces stiff federal charges over asbestos at Montana mine		08 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Libby, Libby, Libby on the Liable, Liable, Liable W. R. Grace faces stiff federal charges over asbestos at Montana mine Mining company W. R. Grace & Co. was formally charged yesterday with knowingly exposing mine employees and residents of Libby, Mont., to asbestos and concealing evidence about its potentially dangerous health effects. The indictment marks the closing chapter of what U.S. Attorney Bill Me ...
Topics: mining and drilling, Montana, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Imaginary Numbers Bush's new budget relies on imaginary Arctic Refuge revenue		08 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Imaginary Numbers Bush's new budget relies on imaginary Arctic Refuge revenue You're the president, you've promised to cut the country's enormous deficit in half by the end of your term, and you're required to produce a budget showing how you're going to do it. You've got a Congress that hasn't consented to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, enormously expensive wars going in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a ...
Topics: Arctic, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

Purple Haze, All in My Parks Gas drilling in the West threatens air at national parks		31 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Purple Haze, All in My Parks Gas drilling in the West threatens air at national parks Air quality and visibility at more than a dozen of the nation's oldest and most beloved national parks and monuments, including Mt. Rushmore and Yellowstone National Park, are under threat from the ongoing boom in natural-gas drilling in the Western U.S. Officials from the Bureau of Land Management admit that the ...
Topics: air pollution, mining and drilling, national parks, West (all these topics)

Ay, Chihuahua! New drilling approved for New Mexico's Otero Mesa		25 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Ay, Chihuahua! New drilling approved for New Mexico's Otero Mesa The Bureau of Land Management yesterday made the final decision to open nearly 2 million acres of Chihuahuan desert grassland in southern New Mexico to oil and gas drilling. The Bush administration insists that drilling in the area, known as Otero Mesa, won't be a "free-for-all," as the BLM's plan calls f ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, New Mexico (all these topics)

Rocky Road-Widening Tragic accident pits Virginia town against strip mine		07 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Rocky Road-Widening Tragic accident pits Virginia town against strip mine The small town of Appalachia, Va., in the heart of coal country, seemed an unlikely spot for an outbreak of public opposition to strip mining. But that changed in the dark early-morning hours of Aug. 20, 2004, when a bulldozer widening a road to a strip mine in the hills above the town dislodged a 1,000-lb. boulder that then crashed through the wall of ...
Topics: mining and drilling, Virginia (all these topics)

Something Old, Something Newmont Mining giant Newmont continues to juggle pollution claims and lawsuits		03 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Something Old, Something Newmont Mining giant Newmont continues to juggle pollution claims and lawsuits The last two weeks have seen a continued flurry of activity surrounding charges that mining giant Newmont fouled the environment and sickened villagers around its operations in Indonesia's Buyat Bay. The New York Times revealed a 2001 internal memo from a Newmont VP recommending a cut in executive bonus ...
Topics: business, mining and drilling, pollution and waste (all these topics)

A Post Whipping Newmont Mining Corp. accused of environmental misdeeds across the globe		15 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
A Post Whipping Newmont Mining Corp. accused of environmental misdeeds across the globe The Denver Post has put together an extensive two-part investigative series on Denver-based precious-metal giant Newmont Mining Corp., detailing questionable environmental practices at a number of the corporation's mining operations worldwide. Among the findings: Newmont violated water-quality standards in Nevada, op ...
Topics: business, mining and drilling, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Moving in the Wrong Directional Bush admin changed rule to facilitate drilling under parks, suit charges		18 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Moving in the Wrong Directional Bush admin changed rule to facilitate drilling under parks, suit charges Without the required public input, the Bush administration changed a federal rule, making it easier for oil and gas companies to drill for privately owned minerals beneath national parks, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday by the Sierra Club. At issue is "directional drilling," whereby o ...
Topics: mining and drilling, national parks, United States (all these topics)

Sage Brush With Death Millions of oil and gas dollars at stake in sage grouse controversy		11 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Sage Brush With Death Millions of oil and gas dollars at stake in sage grouse controversy The question of whether to list the sage grouse -- a chicken-sized bird that roams the sagebrush plains of the U.S. West -- as threatened is shaping up as an epic conflict, with millions of dollars in revenue from oil and natural-gas drilling on the line. There were once some 2 million sage grouse ranging over the 270 million acre ...
Topics: mining and drilling, West, wildlife (all these topics)

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