BLM leases: Greed and speed
Utah author Terry Tempest Williams lashes out at the Bush administration over the on-going race for oil and gas leases in the West — many near national parks and monuments in Utah. Williams writes in the LA Times that this selling the soul of the nation "one public parcel at a time":George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, riding bareback and backward in the last gasp of their fossil-fuel governance, are holding fast to their dictum that what is good for the oil business is good for the country. In the interior West, we know this is a lie. Just look at Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah and see how they have been laid to waste, a wide-open wound in America's failed energy policy. Among many Westerners, the consensus is this: We are not against oil and gas development. We are against the greed, speed and scale of it.
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I am glad I never read any of liberal Tempests writings. I will love hearing her explain to her grandchildren why their payments are so high for heat from natural gas, that is if they can afford it!
She forgets that much of the land she's talking about was originally set aside for mining. Now that Park City and Moab are now "yuppie" destinations, instead of mining, maybe she needs to put some windmills up in her back yard for energy. I'm sure in about 10 years she'll have all she needs!
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