Seriously, why don’t we all just shelter in place because, you know, some critter somewhere could get injured. And, aren’t we all adding to the carbon footprint anyway by working, or living? So let’s just shut it all down — all of it.
I am so sick of tired of being tired of this crap. Environmentalists need to go to hell...an be done with it
Freegards
LEX
No surprise there.
Must protect the salamanders and squirrels .. From any and all “assumed” and “projected” possible potential dangers.
And this is why the Feds shouldn’t own these lands.
Why not use existing electrical transmission rights of way? There are already enough of those cutting through the forests and over mountains in WV and western VA.
I’d be willing to bet that many of these Forest Service employees enjoy heat from natural gas, in their homes and offices...and that travels through a pipeline.
Oh, what irony.
Of course they do.
If we are blessed with a shillary or burnie loss these USFS people should be let go and the rest sent packing back to tending Smokey the Bear.
Ben Luckett, staff attorney at Appalachian Mountain Advocates, said the proposed 125-foot-wide construction right of way and 75-foot-wide permanent right of way for the pipeline would result in clear-cutting through the national forests, “causing dramatic forest fragmentation through some of the most high-quality forest habitat in our region.”
Bullspit. It creates habitat.