Timber Butte News Today

Atlantic Richfield/BP said Thursday night that initial analysis suggests the Berkeley Pit could be an appropriate Superfund repository for the bulk of contaminated wastes from the Silver Bow Creek Corridor.

The Atlantic Richfield Co. and Butte-Silver Bow County have asked the EPA to build flexibility into the repository siting process as consideration continues of the Berkeley Pit.

Forest Service officials said they have reduced the Bedrock Fires closure area following successful repair and recovery work on the Willamette National Forest.

Columnist George Ochenski says if we're still trying to figure out what to do with the toxic waste of mining, put it back where it came from -- in the Berkeley Pit.

As Butte faces yet more trauma from its 40-plus-year Superfund struggle to remediate the environmental damages from historic mining and smelting, an old idea has resurfaced. Namely, instead of digging

NIMBY! The Merriam-Webster Dictionary says NIMBY is “opposition to the locating of something considered undesirable (such as a prison or incinerator) in ones neighborhood.” It’s an acronym that means Not

Atlantic Richfield is considering options for transporting and sequestering contaminated mining and smelting wastes. One option for a repository could be the polluted Berkeley Pit.

Bill Foley is pledging transparency in local government if elected chief executive of Butte-Silver Bow County.

Atlantic Richfield is considering establishing a mining wastes repository on land it owns north of the Kelley Headframe. The repository would take material excavated from polluted sites in the Flats.

Several Forest Service Roads in the Bozeman Ranger District are undergoing repairs or closures this July, the Forest Service said in a press release on Thursday.