From the category archives:

Environment

I was reading this morning  about wind farms… and how they are lethal for bats. I am just wondering though - out of all the options we have, which is the lesser evil: coal and oil or air, water, and solar power?  As I was reading about the cons of wind farms, I did get a little [...]

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It’s hard to argue with reasoning like this. Confronted by environmental groups who say that the legislative Environmental Quality Council’s draft recommendations don’t do enough to address greenhouse gas emissions, Representative Chas Vincent of Libby had this to say:
“I believe the science is not resolved,” Vincent said. “And there’s a growing body of evidence that [...]

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I applaud the fact that
A huge patchwork of privately owned forest in northwest Montana — much of it abutting wilderness, and together almost a third the size of Rhode Island — will be permanently protected from development under an agreement announced Monday by two private conservation groups, the Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public [...]

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There are a number of problems with Congressperson Poe’s arguments here but it is worth the five minutes…

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The very independent right wing Montana blogs are all aflutter today about Joe Balyeat’s latest foray into a subject he knows little about. This time it’s two subjects: global warming and compromise.
Balyeat, writing in the Montana Standard, wants us to believe that he believes deeply in compromise on the subject of energy independence and global [...]

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