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News of non-approved genetically engineered wheat discovered growing in Oregon put regulators on high alert. With the bulk of Montana wheat exported and Japan and North Korea temporarily suspending orders of western white wheat, markets and farmers were shaky.
All GMO wheat related questions were directed to Washington D.C. Montana grows some white wheat, but farmers grow mostly hard red winter and spring wheat, with overall annual sales nearing $2 billion.
Read All GMO wheat related questions were directed to Washington D.C. Montana grows some white wheat, but farmers grow mostly hard red winter and spring wheat, with overall annual sales nearing $2 billion.
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For many years, Montana has developed our natural resources – we can think of timber in western Montana, copper in Butte, coal throughout many parts of the state and again a resurgence of oil and gas in eastern Montana. At their economic peaks, each energy industry has created a quick demand for additional services and infrastructure. Communities like Sidney, Glendive, Bainville and Culbertson have and continue to feel the strain of a quickly growing oil and gas industry.
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Fossil fuel development is not going to develop Montana’s economy. Oil and coal companies are greatly overvalued, according to a new report by the Carbon Tracker Initiative.
According to the report, if we are going to keep the Earth’s temperature from increasing more than 2 degrees Celsius, the limit which scientists have said is the highest we can go without causing irreparable harm to the planet, we can only burn 20 percent of our remaining carbon reserves. However, the stock market has not clued in on this yet, and it is valuing the world’s remaining oil, gas and coal reserves as if they were all going to be burned.
Read According to the report, if we are going to keep the Earth’s temperature from increasing more than 2 degrees Celsius, the limit which scientists have said is the highest we can go without causing irreparable harm to the planet, we can only burn 20 percent of our remaining carbon reserves. However, the stock market has not clued in on this yet, and it is valuing the world’s remaining oil, gas and coal reserves as if they were all going to be burned.
Comments (7) TotalTreating all people equally is not the same as treating all people fairly.
Nor is it in the best interest of our society. Strict observance of equal treatment would make it nearly impossible, for instance, for many of our physically handicapped to access their places of work and worship, to run their daily errands, or to freely visit with their families. Few people wish to turn the clock back in this way.
Read Nor is it in the best interest of our society. Strict observance of equal treatment would make it nearly impossible, for instance, for many of our physically handicapped to access their places of work and worship, to run their daily errands, or to freely visit with their families. Few people wish to turn the clock back in this way.
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It’s construction season in Montana and, while at times maddening, it’s at once a welcome sight. As the nation’s infrastructure continues to crumble, our state is spending $372 million building and repairing roads and bridges through the fall – a hefty and much-needed sum.
With the collapse of the Interstate 5 bridge crossing the Skagit River in Washington state, attention has again turned to the country’s increasingly dilapidated transportation system. In that case, a truck carrying an oversize load struck the bridge and a portion of it collapsed. Two vehicles fell into the waters below. No one was seriously injured.
Read With the collapse of the Interstate 5 bridge crossing the Skagit River in Washington state, attention has again turned to the country’s increasingly dilapidated transportation system. In that case, a truck carrying an oversize load struck the bridge and a portion of it collapsed. Two vehicles fell into the waters below. No one was seriously injured.
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It comes as no surprise that much of the budget surplus that Montana has enjoyed for the last eight years has come from energy and natural resource development. Oil and gas efforts across Montana, especially our eastern most counties, have provided opportunity across the state and revenue flows to help fund our government services on the state and local level. It comes with surprise and dismay that Governor Steve Bullock chose to veto a strong bipartisan bill, HB 218, which provides much-needed assistance to our eastern residents.
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Think about the process you go through when preparing for an important business trip.
You make a todo list so you're sure you get all the bases covered.
You think of every scenario that might come up at home while you are gone and every scenario that might up come while out of town.
Based on all the conditions and situations you can think of, you pack/prep/research accordingly and give instructions to the pet/house sitter.
Read You make a todo list so you're sure you get all the bases covered.
You think of every scenario that might come up at home while you are gone and every scenario that might up come while out of town.
Based on all the conditions and situations you can think of, you pack/prep/research accordingly and give instructions to the pet/house sitter.
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Environmentalists have filed yet another lawsuit, against the Kootenai National Forest’s “Young Dodge” project on Lake Koocanusa’s west side. News? Naw … same old story.
Young Dodge has been in the “paperworks” for a long time. Its first draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) was published clear back in February 2006. The Forest Service lost two EIS/administrative-appeal cycles, both over goshawks, in 2006 and 2008.
Then another supplemental EIS, covering the “effects of the […] project on wildlife species,” came out in April 2010. The final SEIS (confused and bored yet?) and Record of Decision was issued in April 2012, after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service signed off on Young Dodge in March.
Read Young Dodge has been in the “paperworks” for a long time. Its first draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) was published clear back in February 2006. The Forest Service lost two EIS/administrative-appeal cycles, both over goshawks, in 2006 and 2008.
Then another supplemental EIS, covering the “effects of the […] project on wildlife species,” came out in April 2010. The final SEIS (confused and bored yet?) and Record of Decision was issued in April 2012, after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service signed off on Young Dodge in March.
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