Posted on 06/19/2017 9:02:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Boosting drilling and mining on America's protected federal lands can help the United States become not just independent, but "dominant" as a global energy force, according to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, whose agency manages about one-fifth of U.S. territory.
In an interview with Reuters, Zinke outlined his approach to development and conservation in America's wildest spaces, and discussed how that philosophy was guiding his review of which national monuments created by past presidents should be rescinded or resized to make way for more business.
"There is a social cost of not having jobs," the former Montana Congressman and Navy Seal said in the interview on Friday. "Energy dominance gives us the ability to supply our allies with energy, as well as to leverage our aggressors, or in some cases our enemies, like Iran," he said.
Former President Barack Obama, who oversaw a huge increase in domestic energy production during his tenure while strengthening environmental protections, had advocated reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil.....
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Why not be top dog in oil?
Wait until the Left hears this.
Where are my earplugs?
The way things stand now, Democrats are likely to destroy drilling rigs, storage facilities, pipelines, and all other related infrastructure to “save the planet”
Ping.
Drill,Baby, Drill.
More jobs for security guards and police. Winning!!
“Former President Barack Obama, who oversaw a huge increase in domestic energy production during his tenure”
BULL SPIT! What a friggan lie. It was the private industry that contributed and Obastard had nothing to do with it.
Like my daddy always said: “Son, when it gets hard STICK in somphin’ ANYTHIN’!
Great chunks of Utah have been declared national monuments by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, forbidding the extraction of coal, oil and natural gas. The amount of energy in those tracts of land is enormous.
Cue the liberal judges to stop the drilling.
“Former President Barack Obama, who wailed and gnashed his teeth as the private sector expanded domestic energy production during his tenure, despite his strenuous efforts to prevent it...”
It’s ROOTERS folks!
It’s implying that US would be better off to leave land in Fed. hands to achieve energy “dominance.”
Article is a left handed hit piece against Trump releasing newly minted Fed. lands back to the states.
Man is a natural creature too. There is no reason man should be prohibited from committing a natural act on any Federal or State owned land. Besides, any misdeeds by man is always cleaned up naturally, providing opportunities for other natural creatures and man has become more responsible at limiting misdeeds.
But I do like this guy's thinking.
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