US EditionMontana Congressional Delegation’s Public Lands Bait-and-Switch
MONTANA, JUL 22 – The bill mandates quarterly oil and gas lease sales and opens 4 million acres to coal mining, while cutting royalty rates and extending lease durations, critics say.
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Montana Congressional delegation’s public lands bait-and-switch
Montana Environmental Information Center Executive Director Anne Hedges and her bird dog, Indie. (Photo courtesy of MEIC) You can’t take your bird dog hunting on lands being mined or filled with oil rigs, even if they are “public” lands. While Montanans were right to celebrate removing the sale of public lands from the recent Congressional budget bill, some may not know that our representatives still voted to put millions of acres of public lan…
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C 67%
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