Posted on 11/06/2010 6:22:51 PM PDT by CedarDave
What is it with these Fvcktards locking up natural resources in deference to “sweeping grasslands”? We have plenty of oil and gas for a hundred years, but we’re forced to import from regimes that hate our guts.
Great plan guys.
Didn’t they ever watch the movie Giant. They proved yars ago that gras and oil wells are not destructive of each other.
Funny they never watched it one of their hero homosexuals starred in it.
That does not belong to those Creeps that is the Americans land and resources.
O'Biden will VETO it... but the sound bites would be delicious..
Natural gas exploitation of the Otero would mean how many millions to SE New Mexico?
However, designation as a national monument will generate how much tourist traffic? Fourteen families a year, curious to see what 1.2 million acres of "sweeping grasslands" might look like?
In fact, they'll find it looks a lot like West Texas and Eastern New Mexico -- but with even fewer trees and at a higher altitude.
For a better look at what Gov. Bill wants to make into a national monument, go to Google World and find 32.3N lat/105.7W long.
More lame duck madness. What does the governor elect say?
Many, many presidents have designated federal lands as National Monuments since Congress passed the Antiquities Act.
Teddy Roosevelt created the most Natl Monuments.
GW Bush created the largest area of Natl Monument, but his Natl Monuments were Marine Monuments in the Pacific Ocean. No resource extraction-no fishing.
These lands in New Mexico, Otero Mesa, were bought from ranchers by the US Army/Fort Bliss when Ike was prez and later transferred to the BLM.
Excuse my ignorance, but I can't for the life of me find a place to insert coordinates on Google earth. It has the coordinates down the bottom, but no place to put them in.
Help anyone?
All of hussein’s executive orders, and all his little tin-pot czars, are going to be reviewed and reversed in 2013 by President Palin.
She hasn't issued a statement that I know of, but she was really supportive of the O&G industry, so I suspect she would like it to be developed for the resources.
Fat Billy needs one of those one way trips to Mars....
With stroke of pen, Bush could have undone Clinton’s “national monuments”, but HE DIDN’T!!!!!!!!
For ranching, it probably takes land in blocks of 100,000 acres to scratch out an existence. Tourists? Forget about it. Few are equipped with gear and experience to do anything much more than 4wd to a camp, stay within sight of it more or less than leave in a couple of days when the water runs low. To actually go cross country, it takes horses and pack animals, plus sidearms and rifles for critter protection. Not to protect the wild critters but to protect yourself from them. My guess is that the ranchers that President Eisenhower bought out in the 1950s probably were on old Spanish land grants that had been in the family for several hundred years. The hard won knowledge on how to actually live there probably disappeared with the ranchers bought out in the 1950s. And they acquired it by being taught by their ancestors before them that wrested it from the Apache and Comanche.
How big a wallop is the proposed drilling expected to actually deal to the grasslands?
Thank God that legislation in New Mexico prevents Richardson from running for a third term as Governor. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW), rated Richardson in April 2010 as one of America’s worst governors.
Let’s not give him any ideas, OK?
Unknown since the natural gas reserves aren’t proven. Additionally, BLM has put so many restrictions on the industry that there won’t be much exploratory drilling. Obviously roads will degrade the grasslands but one of the restrictions is that they have to drill multiple wells from the same drill pad so the impact is less.
Crew is a Soros funded group who specializes in targeting members of the GOP. I figure they are just piling on Richardson to make them look "even-handed."
This sounds like it parallels the situation of the wildlife preserve in Alaska. The maximum footprint expected from drilling is literally minuscule compared to the overall size of the land in question. This is bureaucracy run amok, not sound wildlife management.
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