Category Archives: Environment

Gasoline and the Shale Boom

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Paul Deaton

People don’t connect the dots between lower gasoline prices and the shale oil boom. Yesterday I filled my gas tank for $23.70, with the per gallon price in the mid-$2.40 range. That’s not low compared to when I commuted to … Continue reading →

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Holiday Giving With The NDAA

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Paul Deaton

Congress put an unexpected gift under the Christmas tree the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has become. The U.S. is poised to give a foreign mining company 2,400 acres of national forest in Arizona that is cherished ancestral homeland to … Continue reading →

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Will Iowa’s Contaminated Drinking Water Lead To Statewide Public Health Crisis?

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Trish Nelson

Citizens for a Healthy Iowa Elections matter – and the 2014 election results could mean disaster for efforts to clean up & protect Iowa’s rivers, lakes & streams …. our sources of clean drinking water. Senator-Elect Joni Ernst has said … Continue reading →

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Schedule Of Public Meetings On Proposed Oil Pipeline In Iowa

Posted on November 25, 2014 by Trish Nelson

Iowa Sierra Club Proposed Pipeline through Iowa Carries Risks   [Bolds and italics BFIA’s] Energy Transfer Partners (ETF), also doing business as Dakota Access, announced plans for a proposed oil pipeline that will run diagonally across Iowa, through 17 or 18 … Continue reading →

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Does Iowa Need A New Oil Pipeline?

Posted on November 19, 2014 by bfiaguestwriter

[by Dr. Maureen McCue There are calls to increase our capacity to ship oil by a new pipeline across Iowa. It is asserted a new pipeline will provide needed energy for Iowa’s industries and other energy consumers, it would help … Continue reading →

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Keystone XL — Bright Shiny Object

Posted on November 16, 2014 by Paul Deaton

Friday the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill directing the federal government to move forward on the Keystone XL pipeline on a 252-161 vote. It was less than the number of votes needed to override a presidential veto, but … Continue reading →

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20 reasons Not To Re-elect Branstad

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Dave Bradley

A big thanks to Don Paulson of Muscatine for letting me use and combine his two LTTEs to his local paper into one complete list of Branstad “accomplishments.” We need to elect Jack Hatch as Iowa’s governor! There are a … Continue reading →

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A Righteous Rant

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Dave Bradley

The other day I was reading Dailykos when my eyes caught what looked to be an interesting story on the side list. So I clicked on it and found a very interesting rant by Charles Pierce on reasons why the … Continue reading →

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I’ve Got A Thousand Million Questions

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Dave Bradley

A line from that Moody Blues song “Question” – “I’ve got a thousand million questions About hate and death and war.” And budgets and the wealth gap and the environment and health care and education and … well many more. … Continue reading →

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Energy Transfer Partner’s Alarming Pipe Dreams For Iowa

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Trish Nelson

contributed by Garry Klein On July 9, the Des Moines Register reported that a Texas-based, Fortune 500 company, Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), is planning to build a crude oil pipeline that would deliver a minimum of 320,000 barrels of oil … Continue reading →

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