Bush Administration Christmas Gift to Oil Companies Will be Announced on Election Day

saltwn · #1 (**permalink**) 11-02-2008, 02:43 PM

Sale of Pristine Wilderness Slated to Happen Six Days Before Christmas

SALT LAKE CITY - October 30 - On election day, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to announce that it will sell oil and gas leases on areas in eastern Utah, including sections of Desolation Canyon, White River, Diamond Mountain, Bourdette Draw, and other lands in the Nine Mile Canyon region. These public lands had largely been off-limits to new oil and gas leasing because of a series of federal court and administrative decisions overturning earlier illegal BLM leasing decisions. Bush Administration Christmas Gift to Oil Companies Will be Announced on Election Day | CommonDreams.org

The BLM had previously declared these pristine lands to be wilderness-caliber landscapes.

What a piece of work

Spencer Collins · #2 (**permalink**) 11-02-2008, 03:01 PM

Drill baby drill...youbetcha!

cnredd · #3 (**permalink**) 11-02-2008, 03:11 PM

Yeah...

And here's a report (From the opponents themselves) saying they've been in Nine Mile Canyon for, at least, the last 4 years...And the BLM ITSELF was sued to prevent it...and failed...

twice...

Nine Mile Canyon

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Because of these concerns, groups including Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Utah Rock Art Research Association and the Natural Resources Defense Council have filed suit against the BLM, arguing that instead of approving each stage of the testing with a simple Environmental Assessment (EA), the federal agency should instead commission a more thorough Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). In July 2004, a federal judge ruled that the groups failed to prove there would be significant damage, and found that the company’s mitigation measures were satisfactory. The judge cited the pre-project tests and the presence of an archaeologist, ground motion monitor and environmental expert during all work.

A second stage of testing was also approved in July 2004 (based on an EA), and is known as West Tavaputs Plateau Drilling Program. Here, the BLM allowed an additional 22 exploratory wells to measure oil and gas reserves. This project was expected to be finished by early fall 2004, but as of this writing it is still underway. The BLM’s approval of these two projects is only for the testing of oil and gas reserves; extraction will require a full EIS.

But that okay...

Keep telling us that oil and other energies are "evil" and help create that class warfare your master dreams of...

saltwn · #4 (**permalink**) 11-03-2008, 12:34 AM

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Originally Posted by cnredd

Yeah...

And here's a report (From the opponents themselves) saying they've been in Nine Mile Canyon for, at least, the last 4 years...And the BLM ITSELF was sued to prevent it...and failed...

twice...

Nine Mile Canyon

But that okay...

Keep telling us that oil and other energies are "evil" and help create that class warfare your master dreams of...

Yes it is about values. It doesn'y mean anything anymore when a President makes a national park or reserves ground for posterity. They found gold in Arkansas and found a way to get that ou of a park. Clinton put a bunch of wilderness in reserve, WILDERNESS. They don't make that anymore in America. Wouldn't you like for your grand kids to be able to raft that river without seeing a dead lake or fish with little red sores all over them?
I don't see them sacrificing any BLM land that's rented on 99 year leases to cattle businesses. They could do O.K. with oil wells. It's done all the time in Texas and Oklahoma. No. They give the same leases back to the ranchers to continue to tear up the land with cattle. And give pristine wilderness to the oil companies. That is not land management. It's to hell with your grand kids and money money money.

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