Posted on 05/19/2014 9:21:16 AM PDT by Rio
...About 83 percent of the land identified for the project is privately owned, the companies' proposal said.
The federal government owns the mineral rights under about 65 percent of the land, the plan said. The other owners of mineral rights are described only as non-federal entities.
The project could hurt the struggling sage grouse population in the area, Erik Molvar, a wildlife biologist with WildEarth Guardians, said in a press release.
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“Save the sage grouse!”
They taste great on rice!
They said that the Alaskan pipeline would destroy the caribou populations, instead they saw a long running boom that exists to this day. The warm oil going through the pipe keeps the snow cover from covering the vegetation too early so the critters have more food.
I’m pretty sure that when the trucks come in to drill and setup a well that the sage grouse can walk a few yards to get out of the way.
It is not only the oil workers that are having problems over the Sage Grouse. The enviro’s are going after ranchers on private land in Wyoming.
You can read about it here.
http://www.rangemagazine.com/features/spring-14/range-sp14-sacrificial_lambs.pdf
the sage grouse will recover and adapt once the initial construction of the bulk of the wells is over, just as wild life recovered in Alaska once the pipeline construction was over
what the environmental Nazis knowingly or ignorantly deny, is the the truth that MOST issues are issues that mitigation efforts can minimize and/or overcome and a very great many are not permanent - LIFE writ large has great success at adapting
It has nothing to do with the grouse. It all has to do with control and restriction of Freedom.
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