Clark Resource Council: Take Action Now!

Take Action Now!

If you are a Beartooth Electric Coop member please read, print and sign the following petition and mail the signed petition by May 5, 2009 to:

Beartooth Vigilance Committee
920 Road 1AB
Clark, WY 82435

For more information read the letter by Chairman Greg Jergeson of Montana Public Service Commission which explains the financial difficulties behind the Beartooth Electric Coop rate increases.

Tell Federal Officials to protect our public lands!

Shoshone National Forest Revision Meeting Schedule:

Co-Operators: April 22 - Bighorn Federal, Cody at 9 am to 3 pm
Public: April 22 - Bighorn Federal, Cody at 6 pm
Public: April 23 - Bighorn Federal, Thermopolis at 6 pm
Public: April 29 - Headwaters, Dubois at 6 pm
Public: April 30 – Pronghorn, Lander at 6 pm

Proposed Well on Shoshone National Forest

The Clarks Fork Ranger District of the Shoshone National Forest is seeking comments on a proposed natural gas development project.

Windsor Energy Group LLC has applied to the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management for authorization to drill one exploratory gas well and construct associated facilities for Federal Well #26-2 on National Forest System lands. The proposed activities would occur approximately 0.25 mile inside the Shoshone Forest boundary in the Line Creek drainage.

Please ask the Forest Service to do a full EIS to protect the Shoshone National Forest lands!

Email your comment to comments-rocky-mountain-shoshone-clarksfork@fs.fed.us by November 16th.

View the Shoshone National Forest scoping notice and associated map.

2008 Bighorn Basin Resource Management Plan (RMP) Revision

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) on October 17, 2008 to prepare the Bighorn Basin (BB) Resource Management Plan (RMP) Revision and associated Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The BB RMP Revision Project is a combined effort revising RMPs for both the BLM Cody and BLM Worland Field Offices.

The BLM encourages you to attend scheduled scoping meetings, but comments will also be accepted throughout the planning process via mail, e-mail, and by phone. Please send electronic comments to BBRMP_WYMail@blm.gov.

You can visit http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/programs/Planning/rmps/bighorn.html for more information.

Here’s a sample letter, but please feel free to put it in your own words:

Dear BLM Planners,

The Bighorn Basin is rich in cultural and historic resources, and outstanding desert recreation opportunities. It is also home to the only sage grouse population in the state that is currently expanding, and crucial big game winter ranges for elk, bighorn sheep, mule deer and pronghorn, including some used by the Yellowstone herds. I urge you to develop a revised Resource Management Plan that will:

Require phased leasing and development so that only a minority of the Basin can be committed to oil and gas drilling at any one time;

Give notice when federal minerals are leased and require landowner approval of drilling and make public compositions of all drilling and frac’ing fluids used;

Conduct health impact assessments and inventory air and water quality impacts where drilling is already underway;

Consider cumulative impacts from exploration and development;

Mandate minimum-footprint directional drilling for all projects to reduce impacts;

Require “No Surface Occupancy” for oil and gas development within 3 miles of sage grouse leks and in crucial big game winter ranges and calving sites;

Protect potential wilderness such as McCullough Peaks and Bobcat Draw;

Minimize CBM impacts to protect aquifers; and

Manage livestock grazing to ecologically sustainable levels.

Please add your signature and address to your letter.