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  • Governor Schweitzer's month of contradictions

    State Sen. Ed Walker

    On July 21, Gov. Schweitzer was in Fort Hood, Texas, where he suggested by phone to a Montana reporter that ExxonMobil was concealing the presence of "heavy" crude in its Yellowstone Pipeline. "How could we ever sign off on a cleanup if we don't know what we're cleaning up?" asked the governor, accusing the company outright of impeding the cleanup effort. The next morning, a prominently placed headline in the Billings Gazette read, "ExxonMobil not cooperating, Schweitzer says." Sen. Ed Walker There was only one problem: The...