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Bruce Willis offers Idaho land for airport Actor Bruce Willis made a surprise appearance at the Friedman Memorial Airport Authority's meeting Tuesday night, where he offered to donate 2,000 acres of land in Camas County for a new regional airport. Idaho Mountain Express (Sun Valley); Sept. 3 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Denver reports fewer ozone violations this summer A Regional Air Quality Council official said this summer was one of the cleanest for Denver's air, with federal ozone limits exceeded just 20 times; in 2006, the Mile High City exceeded federal ozone limits 34 times and in 2007, 24. Denver Post; Sept. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Arizona company to manage Yellowstone Club in Montana The owners of the exclusive Yellowstone Club in Montana have contracted with Discovery Land Co., an Arizona-based company that manages 15 other private communities around the globe, to manage the Yellowstone Club, where another 450 additional residential units will be added to the 340 already on site. NewWest.net; Sept. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Engineers have plan to repair Montana dam A custom-made, 16-foot-wide, 14-foot-high steel bulkhead will be dropped in front of the Hebgen Dam intakes to curtail flow while crews repair broken gates on the Montana dam that failed Sunday, sending flows in the Madison River to spring runoff levels. Montana Standard; Sept. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Arizona officials hope mega-resort will be shot in the arm for tourism Business leaders and local officials jammed into the Mesa Arts Center theater to see the plans for a proposed mega-resort to be built on the General Motors Desert Proving Ground in Arizona. Arizona Republic; Sept. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Mobile-home tenants have a month before Utah park turned into a mall The Bonti-villa Trailer Park in Bountiful, as well as an adjacent store and two homes, will be scraped to clear the way for a 38,000-square-foot strip mall, and the 15 families who now live in Utah mobile-home park have until Oct. 1 to find a new place to live. Salt Lake Tribune; Sept. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana company donates $50K each to four colleges Great Falls-based Pacific Steel and Recycling donated $200,000, $50,000 each to the University of Great Falls, Montana State University-Great Falls College of Technology, the University of Montana and Carroll College, for campus-specific projects. Great Falls Tribune; Sept. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Environment
Another company lays out mining plan for Canadian Flathead in B.C. At a meeting in the latter part of August, representatives from three mining companies updated the Flathead Basin Committee on proposed mining plans for an area of the Canadian Flathead in British Columbia directly north of Glacier National Park in Montana, with Cline Mining Co.'s plan for a coal mine and British Petroleum's plan for a coalbed methane project under environmental review by the B.C. government, and Kennecott Canada Exploration Inc. outlined its proposal for an underground coal mine in the Elk River watershed, west of the Canadian Flathead. Hungry Horse News; Aug. 28 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Federal appeals panel sides with BLM 'whistleblower' in Nevada A federal appeals court sided with Earle Dixon, a Bureau of Land Management employee who was terminated four years ago after he spoke out about health and safety issues at the Anaconda copper mine in Nevada, and ruled that the BLM must pay Dixon back wages and benefits. Seattle Post-Intelligencer (AP); Sept. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Politics
Idaho high court rules Rammell will stay on November ballot Independent Senate candidate Rex Rammell will remain on November's ballot after the Idaho Supreme Court tossed a challenge filed by 10 voters and the state Republican Party that claimed Rammell hadn't collected enough signatures to qualify for the ballot. Idaho Statesman (AP); Sept. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Independent candidate withdraws from N.M. congressional race Ron Simmons said he was withdrawing from New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District race to give the other Independent candidate, Carol Miller, a better chance in the race with Democrat Ben Ray Luján and Republican Dan East. Santa Fe New Mexican (AP); Sept. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Legislature
With primary over, Arizona legislative races heat up Democrats will work hard to pick up key seats in the Arizona Legislature, but Tuesday's vote emboldened Republicans, who see opportunities in November as well. Arizona Republic; Sept. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Economy
Texas film on fighting coal power will screen in Nevada, Utah Robert Redford's "Fighting Goliath — Texas Coal Wars," which chronicles the successful efforts to scrap coal-fired power plants in that state, will be screened in Nevada and Utah, where opponents of coal-fired power plants proposed in those states hope the documentary will have the same effect. Las Vegas Sun; Sept. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Investors snap up stock in Canada's forestry companies Stock analysts said recent interest in Canada's large forestry companies is based on investors belief that the sector will see a sustained rebound, perhaps as early as next year. Edmonton Journal; Sept. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story American Petroleum Institute official to speak today in Montana John Felmy, the chief economist for the American Petroleum Institute has been traveling the nation to educate residents about the oil industry, and today Felmy will participate in a panel discussion in Montana on oil prices, oil production in Montana, and how higher oil prices could affect Montana's economy. Helena Independent Record; Sept. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Air service returns to 2 Montana cities Great Lakes Aviation took over federal Essential Airline Service to seven eastern Montana cities when Big Sky Airlines shut down in March, and on Tuesday, air service was restored to two of the seven cities, with Great Lakes offering service in Sidney and Lewistown, although the destination city for those flights are Denver, not Billings; and Havre, Glasgow, Wolf Point, Plentywood, and Billings will have to wait to see if their EAS flights are restored. Billings Gazette; Sept. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Alberta parents press schools to present both sides of climate change Oil and agriculture are the underpinnings of Alberta's economy, and just as in the '80s when parents insisted students learn the economic realities of agriculture as well as the environmental risks, parents are now insisting that lessons on climate change and the oil industry contain the same economic realities. Toronto National Post; Sept. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Wyoming governor says state can't get into gas pipeline business Constitutional constraints prohibit Wyoming from funding or building pipelines to move the state's natural gas to markets, and Gov. Dave Freudenthal said such projects should be undertaken by the private sector. Casper Star-Tribune (AP); Sept. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Vail Resorts spends $100M to upgrade Colorado, other ski resorts Vail Resorts officials said the $100 million planned in improvements spent at its five resorts, including Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Heavenly Mountain Resort near Lake Tahoe, could increase to $115 million. Denver Post; Sept. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story
The Wasatch Wind Farm at the mouth of Utah's Spanish Fork Canyon has been generating enough electricity to power 19,000 homes since the end of July, and Spanish Fork officials plan a celebration of the wind farm's completion this weekend. Salt Lake Tribune; Sept. 4 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story |
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