Rising Tide announces Powder River, Montana coal action

Media Advisory: Environmental Activists Announce No Coal Exports Summer Camp in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin


On August 2-10, hundreds of people from a broad coalition of workers, seniors, ranchers, students, local residents, environmentalists, and more – will converge in in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin at West By Northwest, a No Coal Exports Action Camp, to build constructive solutions to preventable human and environmental catastrophes related to coal exports.


West By Northwest will raise awareness about:


The extraction of more than an estimated 400 million tons of coal a year from Powder River Basin mines for coal industry profit.


The Obama Administration’s release last year of an additional 750 million tons of western coal for mining and export to Asia which will flood these economies with cheap, dirty coal.


The burning of Powder River Basin coal which will cause 1.5 billion more tons of CO2 to be released into our atmosphere.


The burning of exported coal from the Powder River Basin in densely populated Asian nations where health and environmental protections are under development.


The coal industry’s investment in the development of new rail lines and massive shipping terminals that will impact domestic communities with illness, noise, pollution, and traffic delays.


The Coal Export Action taking place in Helena Montana from August 10 through August 20th that is calling on the Montana Land Board to reject Arch Coal proposal to open up the Otter Creek mine in southeast Montana.


WHAT: West By Northwest will hold workshops on extraction and coal export related topics, organizing skills and participate in local community projects.


WHO: High Country Rising Tide is the Wyoming chapter of Rising Tide North America; Rising Tide North America is an all-volunteer climate network working on fossil fuel extraction and climate justice issues in Canada, Mexico and the United States.


WHERE: In Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, near Gillette, WY.


WHEN: August 2nd through August 10th


INFO: For more information on the camp, please visit www.highcountry.risingtidenorthamerica.org. For more information on the Coal Exports Action in Helena, please visit www.coalexportsaction.org


Scott Parkin 415-235-0596 (mobile) sparki@risingtidenorthamerica.org

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August in the Powder River Basin: makes burning man look like a naked picnic. oh yeah, yikes.

Those dates overlap with STURGIS® MOTORCYCLE RALLY 2012. Wednesday of Rally is traditionally a Wyoming loop: could get weird.