Fill ‘er up with Canadian crude

Big-rig modules awaiting transport through Missoula.

As Missoula debates the transport of huge oilfield equipment through town, en route to the oilfields of Alberta, no one has stopped – until now – to ask where we get the gasoline we use each day.

This past week, the Missoulian dispatched reporter Kim Briggeman in search of an [...]

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Steve Breen's oil-soaked editorial cartoons

Courtesy Steve Breen, San Diego Union-Tribune

Steve Breen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the San Diego Union-Tribune, has once again proved the importance of journalists going straight to the source.

Tormented by the Gulf oil disaster, but worried his bosses would think the idea hair-brained, Breen bought his own plane ticket and headed to the [...]