[henkster]

Follow the money. These groups don’t hire armies of lawyers to block economic development solely on the $10 donations from grandma who saw a cute picture of a baby seal on a flyer.

[Cold Heart]

$10 donation from grandma
These con jobs need to be catagorized as elder abuse.

[Starboard]

Excellent post. Always follow the money.

[Smokin' Joe]

The ecowhackos are at it in North Dakota, too, trying to bring suit to stop flaring gas, a byproduct of oil production. Current infrastructure construction backlogs necessitate the flaring of gas: there are no pipelines to gather it. The gas is produced with oil, dissolved in the oil, and separated from the oil on the production location and flared off. The oil is hauled by truck from the location. Circumstances make it impossible to produce oil without the dissolved gas, economics are such that flaring a few hundred dollars worth of gas a day pales in comparison to the revenue generated by producing anywhere from 1000 to 2000+ barrels of oil per day.

Stopping flaring (which just cannot be done as a practical matter while producing the oil the gas is dissolved in) would bring the oil boom of the Bakken/Three Forks to a screeching halt.

Apparently the groups pushing the agendae got their seed money from somewhere, and the efforts are likely coordinated.