North Dakota Sky

Sep 11th, 2009 in Newswire, Tour Blog This was shot from the van that took a few of us from Bismarck to Minot. I was told by a bus rider behind me that the land along the route had been mined for coal and then “put back the way it was.” The other guy behind me said, “how can that be???” He was the guy who asked me to hold his fish. Share this:EmailPrintFacebookStumbleUpon

The EPA CO2 Endangerment Finding

Sep 11th, 2009 in ACESA Flaws, Tour Blog Share this:EmailPrintFacebookStumbleUpon

TOUR BLOG: Day Three

Sep 7th, 2009 in Featured Articles, Newswire, Tour Blog North Dakota’s promise and lethal challenge were both on display today along my 100-mile bus route from Minot to Bismarck. Lethal Challenge: The highway went past the entrance to a large surface coal mine. The crane used to bucket the coal from the earth was simply the biggest piece of machinery I have ever seen. Its boom thrust up toward the clouds as if it owned them, too. In masterful stillness (today is Labor Day), the crane dominated the landscape. But this machine provides the ore that powers the generators that make the electricity that keeps most North Dakotans alive. Not just warm and...

Climate SOS Tour: Blog Post #2

Sep 7th, 2009 in Featured Articles, Newswire, Tour Blog Climate SOS Tour, Day 2, Montana:  Seattle Team Reports from the Rails Climate SOS Team Leader Duff Badgley left Seattle via train and on Sunday night posted this blog as his train travelled towards North Dakota where he will meet up with the Massachusetts Team members.  They will meet with North Dakota Senators Dorgan and Conrad’s staffers on Tuesday in Bismarck Duff writes from the Montana prairie 9/6/09:  No cell reception in Montana today, after I moved from the mountains to the plains. No email, no press contacts, no website tending, no organizing…not unwelcome after the mad dash to get...

Climate SOS Tour Blog Post #1

Sep 5th, 2009 in Featured Articles, Newswire, Tour Blog The methane news in the MIT paper yesterday terrifies. Methane is likely escaping from the sea floor at a rate 1 million times faster than previously thought. One million times! What are we going to do? Are we going to let Big Oil, Big Coal and Corrupt Big Greens give us cap-and-trade and business-as-usual? If you are among those of us who shout “NO!”, then join our Tour blog. Help us KILL THE BILL in the senate where cap-and-trade is spawning under Barbara Boxer and John Kerry. The Climate SOS Tour to KILL THE BILL reaches Minot, ND tomorrow night (9/6), then gathers in Bismarck, ND...