http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123792991709930321.html
how much of this land was oil laden?
Does this include the shale oil fields out in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming?
It is so bizarre when the democrats spout energy independence yet they smother any kind of independence we could have.
All democrats do is leave us more reliant on foreign sources.
Maybe that is what they really want. There is no way to justify what they do.
Ah, another milestone for Milhous... /sarc
Hey, when we’re all flat broke, living in shacks and foraging for food in the wilderness, we’ll need that land. Makes sense to me.
Wilderness areas also prohibit any type of motorized vehicles. You can only hike into these areas. Look at what they tried to do to Bobby Unser when he got lost on a snowmobile in a wilderness area in a blizzard.
Twice the size of Rhode Island. Oh, these socialists are just getting started. In another decade or two, they’ll be setting aside much larger areas, say twice the size of Kansas? Even then I doubt Americans would wake up.
Isn’t 70% of the USA National Park property? I know I’ve read that,somewhere.
Discussed before:
Some Information from the site of Senator Coburn:
• The bill blocks the development of both renewable and oil and gas energy resources. One bill in the package locks up at least 8.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and more 300 million barrels of oil in a single field, which is equal to nearly twice as much natural gas as all American homes use in a year.
• The bill includes 92 National Wild and Scenic River designations covering 1,100 miles that will prohibit any pipeline or transmission crossing.
• In 19 cases, the bill permanently withdraws federal lands from future mineral and geothermal leasing.
• Since the Senate last considered the lands bill, Secretary Salazar has withdrawn major energy leases in Utah (77) and Wyoming (8) that were the subject of a coordinated lawsuit brought by extreme anti-energy groups. Secretary Salazar specifically delayed offshore drilling and the development of oil shale.
Examples of wasteful spending and egregious earmarks:
• An estimated $1 billion for a water project in California for the restoration of 500 salmon.
• $3.5 million to celebrate the 450th Anniversary of St Augustine, Florida in 2015.
• $250,000 for the Park Service to study whether Alexander Hamilton’s boyhood estate at St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands is suitable for designation as a new National Park unit.
• $5 million for the National Tropical Botanical Garden to operate and maintain gardens in Hawaii and Florida.
• A new ocean exploration program that is tasked with conducting “scientific voyages to locate, define, and document historic shipwrecks.”
http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=RightNow.Home
Imagine if under this new “park” was the worlds largest concentration of “clean coal”.
Imagine if the second largest concentration was owned by his major campaign contributor.
That was the essence of “coal-gate”
One of many scandals the corrupt clinton crime machine was involved in.
That is because he wants to destroy us.
Sing Along Everybody, I'm sure we need some new words though.
This bill is fascist. It containst the totalitarian “Paleontological Resources Protection Act.”
I spoke to someone on the other side about this. It is intended as a big “eff you” to Tom Coburn, who had bottled up this toxic regulation for a long time.
May our chains rest lightly.
The little fascist pig just signed over trillions in natural resources to the Chicoms so they keep buying our debt. We will one day have to fight a war to use our resources.
Note: The following text is a quote:
THE BRIEFING ROOM
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
__________________________________________________________________________
EMBARGOED UNTIL DELIVERY March 30, 2009
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
Today I have signed into law H.R. 146, the “Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009.” This landmark bill will protect millions of acres of Federal land as wilderness, protect more than 1,000 miles of rivers through the National Wild and Scenic River System, and designate thousands of miles of trails for the National Trails System. It also will authorize the 26 million-acre National Landscape Conservation System within the Department of the Interior.
Among other provisions, H.R. 146 designates three new units in our National Park System, enlarges the boundaries of several existing parks, and designates a number of National Heritage Areas. It creates a new national monument — the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument –- and four new national conservation areas, and establishes the Wyoming Range Withdrawal Area. It establishes a collaborative landscape-scale restoration program with a goal of reducing the risk of wildfire and authorizes programs to study and research the effects of climate change on natural resources and other research-related activities.
Treasured places from coast to coast will benefit from H.R. 146, including Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan; Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia; Oregon’s Mount Hood; Idaho’s Owyhee Canyons; the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado; Zion National Park in Utah; remarkable landscapes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California; and wilderness-quality National Forest lands in Virginia and public lands in New Mexico.
This bipartisan bill has been many years in the making, and is one of the most important pieces of natural resource legislation in decades. This legislation also makes progress for which millions of Americans have long waited on another front. The Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act is the first piece of comprehensive legislation aimed at improving the lives of Americans living with paralysis. It creates new coordinated research activities through the National Institutes of Health that will connect the best minds and best practices from the best labs across the country, and focus their efforts through collaborative scientific research into a cure for paralysis, saving effort, money, and, most importantly, time. It will promote enhanced rehabilitation services for paralyzed Americans, helping develop better equipment and technology that allows them to live full and independent lives free from unnecessary barriers. This legislation will work to improve the quality of life for all those who live with paralysis, no matter the cause.
Section 8203 of the Act provides that the Secretary of the Interior shall appoint certain members of the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor Commission “based on recommendations from each member of the House of Representatives, the district of which encompasses the Corridor.” Because it would be an impermissible restriction on the appointment power to condition the Secretary’s appointments on the recommendations of members of the House, I will construe these provisions to require the Secretary to consider such congressional recommendations, but not to be bound by them in making appointments to the Commission.
BARACK OBAMA
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 30, 2009.
I think he's broken that promise more than he's kept it.