Seems like a really good spot for a coal mine, doesn’t it? Arch Coal just resubmitted their permit application to mine the Otter Creek Valley in southeastern Montana. Their first one was rejected by the MT DEQ over a year ago. If you’ve never been to the Otter Creek valley, here are a couple photos to help you visualize where a financially troubled coal company is proposing to build one of the largest coal mines in the nation. All photos taken July 2014. Click on the photo for…

Yesterday I tweeted an article to Ryan Zinke’s twitter handle about how the Pentagon says that climate change threatens our national security. This is the only thing I have ever tweeted to Ryan Zinke. His staff promptly banned me from “following” his account. Geez. I’m just trying to help. Just trying to help him realize the error in his climate change denying ways. Turn him back to the old Ryan Zinke. The old Ryan Zinke used to believe that climate change was an urgent threat and needed to…

In 2010, Arch Coal leased the Otter Creek coal tracts from the state of Montana. If you are interested in how the proposed Otter Creek mine came to be please read my short Otter Creek play that I wrote,”Once Upon A Mine”. There is supposed to be a part II but I’m having a hard time making it funny since whole debacle is so goddamned depressing. However, I am not writing today to talk about the leasing or the corporate pandering by our elected officials or the lack of vision for…