Pulitzer is a prize for writing in a number of fields. The one for journalism this year was awarded to InsideClimate, a non profit on-line news group focused on the environment. google insideclimate.The trio took top honors in the category for their work on “The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You’ve Never Heard Of,” a project that began with a seven-month investigation into the million-gallon spill of Canadian tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River in 2010. It broadened into an examination of national pipeline safety issues, and how unprepared the nation is for the impending flood of imports of a more corrosive and more dangerous form of oil.
Bravo!
ReplyDeleteKalamzoo River - that has to be lower penisula Michigan. Darrel, a prime habitat for native brown trout but also a spawning river for Lake Michigan lake trout (monsters) and coho salmon.
I just followed your blog - Darrel, the St Joseph River in northern Indiana is a prime lake trout steam and it has a tributary called the Pidgeon River which is Indiana's only native trout steam (well, it did start with stocking in the early seventies and the browns started to reproduce in the cold limestone fed water - Caught my first trout on a fly rod there. Actually practiced with a fly rod and a small Hula-Hoop in the parking not at Grissom.
The 305th ARW commander pulled up and gave me some training. I went by his office with a picture of that eleven inch brown and told him where to fish. Great tavern in Mongo - fried mushrooms.
You know how I am on the Keystone pipline - I don't want it anywhere near that auquifer.
Ron
Ron
Clarification:
ReplyDeleteThe Kalamazoo River empties into Lake Michigan near where the St Joseph (Indiana) River does. And, the Illinois and Chicago River has Asian Carp in it and is little better than a cespool.
Ron