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 ...
I hope she hangs a dead dear head in her office.
Yessssssssss.
I can’t handle all this winning!
Best. Election. Ever.
CC
That would be righteous !!
I am not hearing this in DC/NYC circles. Those in the know aren’t talking.
I hope so and I hope she reverses the trend and returns federal lands to the states.
Sarah Palin bump.
:D
Let it be so!
Myron “denier” Ebell head of EPA and Sarah “drill baby drill” head of the interior....perfect! It must really suck to be a liberal these days.
Pipeline, Baby, Pipeline.
End Agenda 21, Baby, End Agenda 21.
They should put whatever is left of the EPA in Interior.
A fellow poster told me yesterday - we are reaching levels of winning previously thought impossible !
She didn’t turn Alaska into a nuclear waste dump.
The Lefties seriously need to chill.
every day is Christmas morning! and we havent even got to Jan 20 yet!
If people think the left has reached bottom.....they’ve just begun flinging their feces.
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