Category: wyoming
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Business Friendly Or Not
Boy, don't disagree with our Governor. He gets a might testy.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/20/news/state/25-governor.txt">Schweitzer pans professors' business ideas</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote><a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> has criticized two University of Montana professors for suggesting that Montanans debate some controversial changes in law to make the state more attractive to business.<br />n<br />nAmong the issues raised by business…
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Wyoming Ranchers Get The Big Picture
All the proponents of coal bed metahnae (CBM) development keep telling us that the water they discharge is all fine and dandy and we as ranchers should quit complianing and let this development continue like it has in Wyoming. Now I see Wyoming ranchers are starting to see the problems of this CBM water.<br />n<br…
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Humorous
Montana and many people in Montana oppose <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/01/news/state/65-cbm-letter.txt">dumping possibly contaminated water</a> into our streams and that is getting the attention of Wyoming coal bed methane (CBM) producers. The solution? The Wyoming Governor wants to <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/14/news/wyoming/30-pipeline.txt">pipe the contaminated water</a> to a different river that doesn't flow into Montana. They will just contaminate Nebraska's water…
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Contaminating the Water
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/09/news/wyoming/70-cbm-water.txt">Illegal CBM water discharge alleged</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>An oil and gas company in the Powder River Basin is being investigated by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality after apparently attempting to hide illegal water discharge from its coalbed methane fields.<br />n<br />nA rancher recently discovered what appeared to be a hidden water pipeline that directed…
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Montana Governor Out to Destroy the Cattle Industry
Isn't the decision those in power make just wonderful sometimes. The federal government tells ranchers they have to control brucellosis or face severe restrictions on their abilities to move cattle across state lines like our friends in <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/1485-Idaho-and-Brucellosis.html">Idaho</a> and <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/83-Brucellosis-in-Wyoming.html">Wyoming</a> recently found out. Yet <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> decides that letting <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/09/news/state/40-gov-bison.txt">possibly…
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CBM Limits
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/02/01/news/state/65-cbm-letter.txt">Legislators push for stiff CBM rules</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Fifty-nine Montana legislators have sent a letter to the Board of Environmental Review asking it to toughen water-quality rules to protect rivers and streams flowing into Montana from Wyoming.<br />n<br />nThe letter urged the board to "address serious problems associated with water and coalbed methane extraction" and…