Baker News

Welcome to ROCKET TRIKE DIARIES -- a 10 week video tour of the 2011 "Ride for Renewables: No Tar Sands Oil On American Soil!" Join Renewable Rider Tom Weis as he pedals his rocket trike 2,150 miles through America's heartland in support of landowners fighting TransCanada's toxic Keystone XL tar sands pipeline scheme.

Plains All American Pipeline subsidiary Plains Pipeline is conducting an open season for committed capacity on a proposed new crude oil pipeline from Baker, Montana to Billings, Montana.

According to Wikipedia , "The Keystone Pipeline System is a pipeline system to transport synthetic crude oil and diluted bitumen from the Athabasca Oil Sands in northeastern Alberta, Canada to multiple destinations in the United States, which include refineries in Illinois, Cushing oil distribution hub in Oklahoma, and proposed connections to ... (more)

In eastern Montana, 2011 opened with snow and ice and sub zero temperatures and closed with warm weather well above freezing in many towns, big winds, and nearly no snow or ice.