Having trouble viewing this email? Click here R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America "Fighting for the U.S.Cattle Producer" For Immediate Release December 4, 2012 Italian Lawyer Tells President Obama and Congress to Repeal or Modify COOL by May 23 Billings, MT – At the behest of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Italian lawyer Giorgio Sacerdoti today…
Thanks Darol for a little common sense approach to this whole thing. I have lived next to those coal generating plants up here in North and South Dakota and I can tell you that I have managed to enjoy some very cheap and clean and dependable electricity. I have never experienced any discomfort, from their…
Mike, I don’t want to argue with your mailing list and make a bunch of people mad. Chances are I might really like the unknown fellow who signs his name RDO. However, 1) there are some ruthless laws enforced on drilling companies if they ever contaminate an area. They are forced to pay damages, if…
Mike: RDO is right: natural resource use shouldn’t be an either/or fight between the greenies and greedies. It becomes that way, of course, because of the money involved. A better measure, however, is people: how are people affected by the resource extraction, its use, its disposal, its environmental consequences. Everybody uses energy but that unanimous…
Mike, I find it interesting that one of your subscribers living all the way up on the Marcellus is somehow able to conclude that "Thousands of wells have been fracked in Texas with no problem." I’m sure that his assertion is of great comfort to all the Texans who’ve had their water contaminated by fracking….
Mike, I believe this article is just BS. I just fraced a little well last week and have been for 30 years with no problems. This bunch of greenies hates anything to do with using the earth including ranching. If I had my way they would eat a cold Christmas dinner in the dark because…
Mike ~~ I am here on the Marcellus. The ranchers are making so much money from oil leases and royalties the only thing they need banks for is to pile their money. People with oil under them are friends of fracking. People who don’t have leases are not friends of fracking. The reasons people are…
Is Fracking Contaminating US Livestock? Matt Bewig, AllGov Excerpt: "Livestock in areas where hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’) is occurring are getting sick and dropping dead in alarming numbers." READ MORE From the article: “Although there have been few cattle deaths so far, some institutions that specialize in risk management have begun to see the pattern and…
How Walmart is devouring the food system By Grist staff One out of every four dollars Americans spend on groceries goes to Walmart, as we’ve reported before, and the retail behemoth is on track to seize more than a third of the market. Get more facts about Walmart and food in this infographic from the…