Where is Boehner? Afraid to cut funding again ?
If it were not the sage grouse it would be the some rare smelt or “endangered” tick. They’d go all the way down to paramecium if they had to.
Let’s barbeque all the sage grouses and lower the price of gas.
Best time for harvesting sage chickens is starting about Aug. 1. A .22 long gun is an excellent harvesting tool. Target the young ones. They are the best eating.
Abomination!
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There fixed it.
Ping.
The green nuts are using the lesser prarie chicken to campaign against wind power, which I find confusing. I thought the nuts loved windmills.
Environmentalists think this will harm oil and gas, and they are right. But, guess what?
Wind farms are the biggest threat to sage grouse and prairie chicken habitat. No more wind farms.
We can either encroach on critters, or have energy.
You 11 western states had better REBEL!!!
Just because the feds own the property doesn’t mean that they can control what goes on there. Too few feds, and way too much real estate for any government to effectively cover, or control for that matter. They don’t call the region “no man’s land” for no particular reason.
This is the works of the lilly whites. They do not care if prices go up.
They’re in a horse race with the EPA which is about to declare the potholes in your street and the rain puddle on your driveway as protected wetlands.
This will not have nearly as big an impact on oil production as it might appear.
Most new production is the result of tight (shale) oil drilling.
The major new fields to date have been east of the Rockies, where almost all land is private. That non-involvement of federal land is one of the attractions, but another is simply the geology involved.
The land west of the Rockies is simply much more complex geology, both above and below the surface, due to its more complex geological history tectonically. A lot less of the large horizontal shale beds that are more easily fracked than in the less complex geology of the East and Middle US. Water, a key factor, is also generally a lot less available in the West.
At present there is still a LOT of accessible private land available for drilling east of the Rockies, so it doesn’t seem likely that making federal or western land less available for drilling is going to slow things down much if at all.
It should also be noted that any gas/oil down there isn’t going anywhere. It will still be there in 100 years if we need it.
Not a fan of these proposed regulations. Just trying to keep some perspective on the issue.
- Obama is setting up his royal Muzzie buddies mid-east Islamic oil countries future cash-flow to get an massive endless off-shore retirement fund for himself and his daughters by permanently blocking the use of America’s available and abundant energy assets…..
- It is time for the pathetic pansy Mom-Jeans jerk to put on his sissy helmet to visit Dallas on his girl’s bike -
i love grouse hunting..
they are one elusive creature, and to bag one is to be rewarded with a right tasty meal...
This explains obama’s dithering on the approval of the Keystone pipeline: giving the nature nazis time enough to work up a scam that will permit a veto.
Chopping them up with windmills is fine. Doing absolutely nothing harmful to them with low impact oil rigs is bad.