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[buckland]

Latest National Geographic has a good article on Bears Ears and the surrounding National Monuments.

[buckland]

The fate of the refuge’s coastal plain is in the hands of Ryan Zinke,

and It's just greed at the expense of a treasure once destroyed that won't 'come back'.  

 

https://www.nytimes....pgtype=Homepage

[buckland]

Scientific American has come out against the anti science leadership in the Dept. of Interior and the Zinke led plundering of natural resources.
https://blogs.scient...f-the-interior/

[rando]

This is sickening to read.   

[DLN]

Sickening  is putting it lightly rando. It will take decades to undo the environmental damage being done by Zinke and his goons.

[buckland]

Early Christmas Present for the entire Country!!!!!

 

 

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[rando]

Wait to see who he is replaced with before celebrating too wildly.

[buckland]

The swamp is pretty deep.  IMG_7112.JPG   101.38K   12 downloads

[Foy]

The swamp is pretty deep. IMG_7112.JPG

Perhaps it's helpful to remember that President Obama's Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, was trained as an engineer and worked for Mobil, as did her husband, in the oil fields of Oklahoma. She describes herself as probably the only Secretary of the Interior who personally worked on hydraulic fracturing an oil and gas well. 

 

Foy

[Stray Dog]

I would like to ask a question.  I don't intend to make this topic any more political than it already is but....

 

We are a group of consumers who depend heavily upon energy to enjoy our hobbies.

 

All Americans have relied upon energy from Alaska and half way around the world all of our respective lives and will continue to for the time we remain on planet earth.  Renewables will be economical eventually but we aren't there yet.

 

American environmental regulation and industrial requirements are the most stringent and protective on earth.  Generally speaking, the energy industry does a 'good job' of producing what the nation needs (wants?) at a cost we can afford with minimal environmental damage.  We all want fuel available when we are at the pump and most of us are concerned with the cost of the same.  Currently, gas costs less than a gallon of milk where I live.

 

Why is  energy production in the Arctic Refuge and in the American west such a forbidden subject to some?    Is it more "greedy" to produce energy here than in the most volatile region of the world?  

 

Why is it "greedy" to produce the products needed and wanted in the world?  Would we be better off not to have petroleum products widely available to us all?

 

Is it possible that we can generate what we need here with minimal environmental damage while retaining those special areas where extraction industries don't operate?  What makes it better to 'leave it in the ground'?

 

Thanks...