02.05.09

Bad and wrong – the regime’s streak remains unbroken

Posted in Environment policy, iraq at 5:56 pm by Administrator

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar cancels Utah’s oil and natural gas leases.

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  1. MR. Dings said,

    February 6, 2009 at 3:23 pm

    More hello/goodbye, stop/go, no/yes, and the innocent cries what is truth?
    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/opinion/06fri3.html?ref=opinion

    (of course for the bloggie, it is not found here)

    The Bush administration tripled oil and gas permits on federal land, often in areas with great environmental value but trivial amounts of oil and gas. In Utah’s case, for instance, the leases at issue were only a tiny part of a broader plan that was fast-tracked by the Bush Interior Department that could yet expose the state’s most fragile landscapes to drilling and other forms of commercial development.

    These plans will now be reviewed, as will proposals for oil and gas development throughout the Rocky Mountain West, in Alaskan waters and in areas off the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts.

    Industry is complaining that any change in the Bush-Cheney approach would damage its ability to develop domestic energy supplies. This is nonsense. For one thing, industry has yet to explore large areas to which it already has access, onshore and off. All Mr. Salazar wants is balance and restraint, and after years of hyperactive leasing, this is not too much to ask.

  2. Bentnotesmanhisself said,

    February 6, 2009 at 5:05 pm

    That’s not the way the mountain-states oil and gas trade association sees it.

  3. MR. Dings said,

    February 6, 2009 at 5:44 pm

    The writer above says it’s nonsense. Wonder if we can ever come up with an “issue” where there is not such divergence in opinion? Ride my seesaw.

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