Posts Categorized: oil

MEP and members urge President Obama and Attorney General Lynch to reconsider permits for Dakota Access Pipeline

Posted December 2nd, 2016 by & filed under Clean Water, climate change, Loon Commons blog, oil, Water.

Minnesota Environmental Partnership and our member groups delivered the following letter to President Obama and Attorney General Lynch, expressing their support and solidarity to the Sanding Rock Sioux Tribe and… Read more »

No more tar sands? Easy as 1-2-3

Posted June 8th, 2015 by & filed under Keystone XL, Loon Commons blog, oil, oil sands, tar sands.

“ONE: We are the people.” “TWO: We are un-i-ted.” “THREE: We will not let you build this pipeline.” Of all the chants that rang through the streets of downtown St…. Read more »

Frac Sand’s Wild Refugees

Posted March 29th, 2015 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, clean energy future, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Land Conservation, Loon Commons blog, oil, Wildlife.

By Johanna Rupprecht, Land Stewardship Project There’s a farm near the Jackson County, Wis., community of Hixton that is in the process of being destroyed by being turned into a… Read more »

First Test of 2013 MN Frac Sand Law is Successful

Posted July 31st, 2014 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under agriculture, Energy, EQB and Environmental Review, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Global Warming, Health, Land Conservation, Loon Commons blog, oil, rural, Water.

By Johanna Rupprecht, Land Stewardship Project The owner of a controversial Houston County silica sand mine was notified Monday by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) that he must… Read more »