The 0bama Regime has found away to retard the energy boom in the USA plus punish the State of North Dakota for being successful. One of the Largest Federal Land Grabs BY JAMES FREEMAN ONE OF THE LARGEST FEDERAL LAND GRABS The Obama Administration may have finally found a way to stop the boom in U.S. energy production. Delaying approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, maintaining export limits and discouraging refinery construction havent stopped a revolution that will soon make the United States the worlds largest producer of crude oil. But a Journal editorial this morning notes that Washington may add a record 757 new species to the endangered list by 2018. Included on the roster of potentially protected critters are two range birds—the greater sage grouse and the lesser prairie chicken—that could severely restrict energy production across a broad swath of the American West. The prairie chicken sits atop Texass Permian Basin oil bonanza, and the sage grouse is near the Bakken Shale in North Dakota, notes the editorial. An Interior Department report claims the impact on the sage grouse of oil and gas operations is universally negative and typically severe, even though current horizontal drilling techniques leave only a small footprint on the landscape.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:10:41 +0000
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