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Today, the Northern Plains Resource Council and Carbon County Resource Council, a Northern Plains affiliate group, challenged the way the Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation (BOGC) does business regarding hydraulic fracturing, the controversial method of extracting natural gas being questioned nationwide for its impact on water. The two conservation groups amended their January lawsuit claiming the “48-hour fracking warning” is inadequate to enable public participation. The groups also maintain the BOGC’s February approval of an oil w...
More than 850 people have already signed a petition against plans announced Thursday by Energy Corporation of America to develop oil and gas leases around Roscoe, Red Lodge, and the Big Horn Basin of Montana and Wyoming. Northern Plains Resource Council and its affiliate Carbon County Resource Council are poised to resist the drilling plans developers say would have the impacts of the Bakken oil field in North Dakota and Montana and “fundamentally change these areas the way it has changed other areas of the United States.” Many residents along...
With cries of “Beep beep, toot toot. Hey, Exxon get off that loot,” more than 50 Yellowstone County citizens rallied recently at Coulson Park in Billings to tell ExxonMobil to pay a $1.7 million dollar fine for spilling 63,000 gallons of crude oil into the Yellowstone River two years ago. Members of the Northern Plains Resource Council, National Wildlife Federation, Montana Conservation Voters Yellowstone Chapter, Yellowstone Valley Citizens Council, and the Montana Laborers Union said Exxon needs to pay the fine levied by the U.S. Dep...
With new data showing that state and federal oil and gas agencies are not keeping up with the rise in oil and gas drilling, members of the Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC) and Northern Plains Resource Council are calling attention to the need for states and the federal governments to fund more inspectors and increase penalties for violating public health, safety and environmental laws. “Although Montana’s Board of Oil and Gas inspectors do the best they can, they are woefully overworked and understaffed,” said Pat Wilson, a Nor...
