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Doanld J. Trump May Hand Sarah Palin The Keys to Nation’s Public Lands, Wildlife
ewg.org/enviroblog ^ | Monday, November 14, 2016 | By Alex Formuzis, Sr VP Communications and Strategic Campaigns

Posted on 11/14/2016 2:16:41 PM PST by drewh

"Drill, baby, drill!”

During her bid for vice president in 2008, that was Sarah Palin's crowd-pleasing chant promoting her energy policy. Now the pithy catchphrase – and the former Alaska governor herself – could make a comeback.

News reports say Palin is on President-elect Donald Trump's short list to head the Interior Department. As secretary of the interior, she'd be in charge of overseeing oil drilling, uranium mining and other energy extraction on 500 million acres of public land, including iconic national parks like the Grand Canyon.

The pro-mining policies Trump and Palin could be expected to bring to Interior would mean EWG and other public land advocates would have to resume a fight we thought the Obama administration settled in 2012.

Under President George W. Bush, the Interior Department tried to open up uranium mines near the south rim of the Canyon. It was a scheme that even The Arizona Republic, once a champion of the so-called “Wise Use” movement, denounced.

If Trump does make moves to open up uranium mining around the Grand Canyon, Palin wouldn't stand in his way, judging from her quip in 2011 about opening the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling: “If a caribou needs to be sacrificed for the sake of energy independence, I say, ‘Mr. Caribou, maybe you need to take one for the team.’”

In a few months, she could be leading the team.

(Excerpt) Read more at ewg.org ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: doanald; drillbabydrill; iminlove; interior; palin; palinwasright; sarahpalin; trump; trumpcabinet; trumprebellion; trumptransition; wildlife
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To: Candor7

bfe (ever)


221 posted on 11/15/2016 5:03:25 AM PST by PfromHoGro (Orwell was overly optimistic.)
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To: lonevoice

I’d think that previously agreeing to be Veep was an indicator that she is willing to move to DC for 4 (at least) years.

Kinda slides the scale closer to Very Likely.


222 posted on 11/15/2016 5:19:57 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Daffynition

If POTUS combines several agencies and departments within existing cabinets, those “budgets” should go toward the national debt.

Yes, I agree that simpler is better. We should return, as much as possible, to the original Departments proscribed by the Constitution. Employees will be affected but the founders did not create a governing body so that individuals can have a paycheck.

In the same manner, DJT did not create a real estate empire to distribute jobs. MARKET-driven government is what we need to revive the economy


223 posted on 11/15/2016 5:26:16 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: weston
Mmmmm, Mmmmm, Mmmmm! Baked Alaska!


224 posted on 11/15/2016 5:29:00 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: going hot

Drop a ?THAILAND? banner between the horns and we have a winner.

Please keep me updated, I’ll be in the shower.


225 posted on 11/15/2016 5:32:00 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Mission creep. It's here and entrenched. DJT will have his plate full, especially with the national debt


226 posted on 11/15/2016 5:41:38 AM PST by Daffynition (*Donald Trump represents the WILL of the PEOPLE.*~ Don King 09.24.16)
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To: drewh

Nice pick for SoI...Todd for Director of Snowmobile Trails in National Parks..


227 posted on 11/15/2016 5:48:27 AM PST by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: drewh

IF so, Trump & Palin need to spend money & manpower in cleaning the pot farms out of our National Forests. In the Tahoe National Forest in Nevada County, Calif, the pot growers have completely taken over the land. Many people used to ride horseback all around there, and since 1990 or so, that is no longer possible. You WILL get shot at. I used to live in Nevada County & it could get really scary when riding in the mountains.

Palin needs to take the SWAT TEAM tactics used on the Bundy ranch & apply it to cleaning out the drug cartel operations that exist in the western forests. It is so prevalent that many county Sheriff’s won’t even try to send deputies into firing range against the cartels.

When our border was more difficult to cross with drugs like Marijuana, the cartels just sent workers across & told them to set up operations in the USA National Forests & they only brought seeds across the border. So simple that the Clinton administration never caught on. NOw, those cartels are well established. Ask the locals...they know how bad it is.

Sarah can clean up the forests & the drug operations there & then she can use those SWAT TEAMS to do other thing than bother Bundy.

The state lands MUST be returned to the control of the states. The constant taking of land away from the American people must be curtailed. We have had millions of acres put off limits by Obama. He has never been to these locations, but he has declared them Monuments....

Congress should be in control of this process-—NOT a single person with a pen.


228 posted on 11/15/2016 5:55:54 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: ASA Vet

Can anyone explain to me the functions of the Dept of Commerce in today’s world? Seems like an outdated & cumbersome department.


229 posted on 11/15/2016 6:05:38 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: ConsCA

US National Wilderness Preservation System,”””

The drug cartels do NOT recognize the sanctity of these designations. They operate freely there, growing massive amounts of Marijuana & fouling streams.


230 posted on 11/15/2016 6:08:55 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: tbw2

President Trump needs to restore the lawsuit between the Feds & Wayne Hage/Wayne Hage Estate. Federal judge told Feds to pay over $14 million + interest to Hage years ago & Feds have stonewalled about this verdict.

Hage family needs to get justice, since Fed employees cut his fences & damaged his water supply to his livestock.

That money needs to be paid to the family ASAP.


231 posted on 11/15/2016 6:13:34 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: PfromHoGro

Take it like a man! :-)


232 posted on 11/15/2016 6:38:31 AM PST by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: truth_seeker
Certainly will be controversial, if true. She is usually spot on for policy. But her communication leaves a bit to be desired. Run on sentences.

Forgot to mention her screechy voice, truth_seeker. That should disqualify her from ANY position in government, huh?
233 posted on 11/15/2016 6:56:13 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: lonevoice

I sure can’t imagine her leaving her beloved Alaskan home to live in DC.


234 posted on 11/15/2016 8:21:22 AM PST by Pride in the USA
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To: KC_Lion

YES!!!!!

Sarah’s BACK!!!!


235 posted on 11/15/2016 9:25:25 AM PST by MeganC (Ik ben Geert Wilders!)
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To: Col Frank Slade

moose head


236 posted on 11/15/2016 10:17:53 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: Daralundy

>> They should put whatever is left of the EPA in Interior.

There is nothing left of the EPA.


237 posted on 11/15/2016 10:32:46 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors!)
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To: SJackson

Sarah ..... good.


238 posted on 11/15/2016 11:51:05 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: drewh

bookmark


239 posted on 11/15/2016 1:24:12 PM PST by simpson96
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To: Col Frank Slade

I hope she has everything she ever hunted stuffed and placed in the hallway leading to her office. I hope it looks like a national petting zoo


240 posted on 11/19/2016 5:20:21 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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