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EUB chairman disbands controversial security unit

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
posted by climategroundzero

Angry critics want board, employees held accountable

Geoffrey Scotton, Calgary Herald

Published: Tuesday, September 25, 2007

A week after being parachuted into the province’s beleaguered energy regulator, Alberta Energy and Utilities Board, chairman William Tilleman has let go two staffers in the EUB’s security unit in response to revelations the adjudicator spied on landowners who opposed a power line project it was examining.

Read the entire story here:

“http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/calgarybusiness/

story.html?id=1a8e42dd-b0b2-424e-91e9-78d35e51cf3c&k=65373

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Senior Sierra Club Official on Montana Fossil Fuel Development

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
posted by climategroundzero

The Big Sky state has as much sun and wind as it does coal. Let’s do all we can to encourage our elected officials to quit focusing on an energy policy that continue to take us down a lose-lose path of climate change and stepped up fossil fuel production.

Rather, let’s put the billions of dollars being proposed for a coal-to-liquid plant at Malmstrom to realize measurable changes and develop renewable energy in ways Montana and the rest of the nation benefit from, as well as their children and grandchildren, for years to come.

Read the entire op-ed here:

http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2007/09/24/opinion/opinion1.txt

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Court won’t expand Powder River Basin injunction

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
posted by climategroundzero

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A U.S. federal appeals court upheld an injunction on Tuesday against development of coal bed methane development on 93 percent of the coal-rich Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming.

Read entire article here:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKN1143327920070911

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Coal Rush Reverses, Power Firms Follow

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
posted by admin

The mayor of Missoula, Mont., is the latest person to discover just how unpopular coal plants have become.

In early August, Mayor John Engen (D) won city council support to buy electricity from a new coal-fired plant scheduled to begin operation in 2011. He said the city government would save money on its electric bills.

But three weeks later, Engen pulled out of the deal after receiving hundreds of e-mails and phone calls from constituents upset that Missoula would contribute to the creation of a coal plant and concerned about what the town would do if the plant never got built.

Read the article here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/03/AR2007090301119.html?hpid=sec-business

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