I love Trump.
Environmentalists never did bother to make a case for why oil drilling would adversely affect the sage grouse.
Having grown up right next door to an oil refinery and “chicken farms” for oil storage- what is surely more developed than an oil drilling area- I found that to get the best photographs of wildlife, especially birds, for reference material, all one need do is go to the wetlands and grasslands around the refinery, as it acted as a perfect wildlife refuge. There were king rails and sora rails, coots, great blue herons, geese and ducks of very description, kestrels and hawks and owls, fox sparrows and other songbirds, kingfishers, a number of tortoises and turtles, snakes, muskrat, beaver, mink, foxes, deer... in greater abundance than there were in regional parks.
So how would drilling for oil harm a sage grouse?
nice.
We are doing all this, but how about starting to build nuclear plants? That is the solution for the future and we are ignoring it. Look at the percentage of power from nuclear plants in places like France. Other european countries are doing the same and we sit here still listening to people like Jane Fonda who doesn’t have a clue, really, about nuclear power. Using caution, it is very safe and productive without creating Carbon Dioxide. Yet we are being silly about it, listening to people who have no background in nuclear power generation.
And 20 years from now, they will discover that the grouse are still thriving in the areas that are no longer protected....