Gazette Editorial Board October 6, 2019 Why does Montana deserve less than North Dakota? Melissa Mittelstaed of Glendive posed that question in a Sept. 29 letter to The Gazette, expressing her concerns about proposed state regulations for landfills accepting low-level radioactive waste from oilfields. “If radiation levels ever spike, Montana landfills have 15 days to […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 25, 2019 GLENDIVE, Mont. – The Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) held the first of two hearings soliciting public comment for draft rules to oversee the disposal of radioactive oil waste. in a packed, standing-room-only hearing room, community members called for strengthening the rules and expressed concern over a report that found […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 17, 2019 BILLINGS, Mont. – Olivia Stockman has officially assumed the role of Staff Director for the Northern Plains Resource Council, a grassroots conservation and family agriculture group founded in 1972. Teresa Erickson preceded Stockman in the role and has retired from the position after thirty-three years of leadership. The Staff […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 26, 2019 Click here for DEQ draft radioactive oil waste rules and hearings schedule. BILLINGS, Mont. – The Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) last week released an update to proposed rules guiding the disposal of radioactive oil waste in Montana. Among the proposed changes is a quadrupling of Montana’s radioactivity concentration limit for […]
MINT and Northern Plains team up to bring Wild and Scenic Film Festival to Babcock Theatre September 21 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 16, 2019 BILLINGS, Mont – The Montana International Film Festival (MINT) is partnering with Northern Plains Resource Council to host the Wild and Scenic Film Festival on Saturday, September 21, at the historic […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 1, 2019 BILLINGS, Mont. – Northern Plains Resource Council is hosting the fourth annual Montana Local Food Challenge. This August, participants are encouraged to eat something local every day of the month, participate in weekly challenges, and compete for weekly prizes. Local foods build local communities and local economies, support farm […]
Groups aim to ensure companies pay a fair return for taxpayer-owned minerals FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 25, 2019 Cheyenne, Wyo.— Five conservation groups moved today to intervene in a lawsuit to preserve the 2016 Valuation Rule, a set of federal requirements requiring fossil fuel companies to pay full royalties when extracting publicly owned minerals. The […]
Once-polluted stream is first to be removed from Montana’s Impaired Waters List FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 18, 2019 SILVER GATE, Mont. – Soda Butte Creek is the first stream polluted by mining ever to be removed from Montana’s Impaired Waters List. A celebration of this achievement takes place today with events in Cooke City and Silver Gate. For years, […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 11, 2019 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee held an oversight hearing on “The Future of the Federal Coal Program” to consider reform of the Department of the Interior coal leasing program. The Subcommittee heard testimony from four expert witnesses including Steve Charter, a rancher from Shepherd, MT and member of the Northern […]
Trump administration violated National Environmental Policy Act and Clean Water Act by approving controversial tar sands pipeline FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 1, 2019 Great Falls, MT— Northern Plains Resource Council joined a coalition of conservation groups in filing a federal lawsuit today challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ illegal approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline to […]