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 ...
Besides, they don’t even need to “take one for the team.” That was silly hyperbole. Caribou like to nestle up close to the warm oil pipes in the middle of the cold and snow.
Not nice to bring up those patriots unable to defend themselves now who were here since the beginning and were driven off due to the inherent mob mentality that usually arises on touchy subjects.......
Then there were others who just got fed up with the bullshit............
Of course, the hypocrisy will be delicious.
Love this!
I have to agree with staying out of the fray...but my presence is sometimes required at family gatherings. This in itself presents a whole other realm of possibilities for the use of earplugs or an iPod. *grin*
She also was a VERY successful Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, responsible for overseeing the state’s oil and gas fields for safety and efficiency. Almost more important than Governor.
I don’t agree with that. The War Departments function should be to kill people and break their things. Not be involved in Regulating anything Domestically.
Moose head, with a large spread, maybe even a chunk of cheese between the teeth.
Remains to be seen how much support she will get from McCainiac. Fun times ahead.
OPEN UP MY DAMNED JEEP TRAILS WITH BULLDOZERS!!
He wouldn’t dare not support her (publicly at least) at vote for her.
The Democrats might be a different issue...
I hope she hangs a dead dear head in her office.
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After its been to the taxidermist I presume!
You trying to keep it going single handedly?
We will have millions at the inaugural and we will be pissed off and liquored up with tire tools for these paid communist bastards. There will be no tolerance for them — ZERO!!
But my POINT is, they were all so sure Trump is a closet liberal.
He is most definitely not.
That is my POINT.
(Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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Excellent tag line.
Don’t have any family left.
I’m fine with it, more than fine, it looks like a trial balloon.
where is General Flynn ?
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