Job-Creating Keystone Pipeline Affects Endangered Beetle, Says State Dep't

CNSNews ^ | September 1, 2011 | Penny Starr

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I think America is about to become ‘extinct’.

How much is OPEC paying these people? Srsly.

[Marty62]

They’ll probably start having orgies like the caribou did at the Alaska pipeline.

Why don’t these people get a life. Their sense of having God-like power is really getting old.

[basil]

The world needs more oil, and perhaps one less beetle.

[jazusamo]

The enviro-nazis will scream bloody murder about this but it sounds like the State Dept doesn’t think it’s that big a deal and measures can be taken to protect this damn bug.

[American Quilter]

Where are the bugs? I’ll take some bug spray and solve the problem.

[LRS]

I suggest spending millions for “Beetle Escape Route” signs!

[Palter]

Anybody know how much land they will take for this?

[rockinqsranch]

Split “Foggybottom” between the DOD, Cheers bar, and eliminate the rest.

[Ax]

I can’t tell you how many hours a day I spend worrying about the future of the American Burrowing Beetle, and how important it is to my life.

[Safetgiver]

My cat stomped one of little buggers yesterday. Do I turn me, the cat or my grandaughter in?

[crusty old prospector]

It sounds to me like Keystone didn’t grease the palms of the right people. This has got to be the biggest corporate shakedown for a 100-foot wide strip through red states in history.

[Drill Thrawl]

NO PIPELINE! LEAVE PAUL AND RINGO ALONE!

[americanophile]

I'm all for nature, preservation for preservation's sake, etc. I get bashed for it all the time on this forum by those who frankly couldn't care less about the natural world. Having said that, does anyone really believe this will imperil the buying beetle? Sincere attempts at preservation are severely undermined by this kind of patently veiled excuse.

[crusty old prospector]

In 1991, Fish and Wildlife produced an 81-page “recovery plan” to “reduce the immediacy of the threat of extinction of the American Burying Beetle” and to “improve its status from endangered to threatened.”

I would love to get a hold of that for some bed time reading. And we pay the salaries of these morons to write this stuff.

[TexasRepublic]

I wish the legions of government agencies and enviro-nuts were endangered species. Where’s the damned bug spray? SSS

[CPT Clay]

A beetle???? They really cannot be serious.

[Reeses]

The courts will kill this just like the Alaska Pipeline. The only way this pipeline will happen is by an act of Congress and a new Republican administration from top to bottom. It will then have to be built as fast as possible before the left knows what hit them.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Those mythical "endangered species" sure are a handy way to enslave US citizens.

[jazusamo]

I agree. The enviro-nazis have hurt themselves badly over the last couple of decades with absurd cases of going to the extreme to stop valuable projects.