Posted on 05/31/2021 9:16:51 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
The United States’ energy independence is under threat again as President Joe Biden invokes the Endangered Species Act to protect the lesser prairie chicken’s habitat, where the birds’ range overlaps the oil and gas rich Permian Basin.
The Biden-controlled U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials have proposed the listing, another reversal of former President Donald Trump’s policies, which opened up public land for use by Americans for oil and gas leases, ranching, and recreation:
Under the Act, if we determine that a species is an endangered or threatened species throughout all or a significant portion of its range, we are required to promptly publish a proposal in the Federal Register and make a determination on our proposal within 1 year. To the maximum extent prudent and determinable, we must designate critical habitat for any species that we determine to be an endangered or threatened species under the Act. Listing a species as an endangered or threatened species and designation of critical habitat can only be completed by issuing a rule.
The Washington Post reported on the development:
According to the Post, Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Clay Nichols told reporters that the “things that would be prohibited” include actions deemed harmful to the bird or its habitat, which literally covers millions of acres of oil and gas rich land.
“Earlier this month Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-OK) and other GOP senators, including those from Kansas and Texas, urged Interior Secretary Deb Haaland not to list the bird under the Endangered Species Act given ongoing conservation efforts,” the Post reported.
“We strongly believe it would be imprudent and harmful to ongoing and unprecedented conservation efforts in our states for the [Fish and Wildlife] Service to issue what would amount to a premature [Endangered Species Act] listing proposal,” the lawmakers wrote.
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Any thing to make Saudis richer while preserving the resource for later export to China
And of course all the windmill and solar activity does notht8ing.
Nothing like a steady tax and regulatory regime to encourage business.
Of course this is idiotic.
Anyone who at this stage does not see what’s happening is either complicit or willfully ignorant. Backlash should prove interesting.
Disgust for the party that hates America and resents those who make it great.
Well, if the only way to get we Americans buy those electric vehicles is to make gasoline and diesel cost $20 a gallon, so be it. /sarcasm/
“Backlash should prove interesting.”
It may take collapse first, see USSR.
Or see the Book of Revelation . . .
Biden was thinking of Dixie Chicken, Little Feat.
Only in 5 states?
Must be rare.
They consider Trump Supporters a purposely Endangered Species.
That’s hitting home now. Texas doesn’t have federal lands that fell under their ban, so now they’re using the chicken.
Windmills aren’t bird friendly.
I wonder how much money the Prairie chickens donated to the Biden campaign?
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Close. Where do you think Democrat fund raising events get all those chicken dinners?
Well yeah. Not a whole lot more impotanter than them prairie chickens. Sooooooo much Stoopidness. At least, per 🐫-la, we have a long weekend to enjoy. For some obscure reason
I can remember when they fought the Alaska Pipeline...said it would harm the Caribou.
Then we discovered that the females were calving UNDER the pipeline where it was overhead because it was WARMER there.
This is the quickest way possible to make that chicken extinct, mess with people’s livelihoods.
I get angrier and angrier every day.
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