Energy
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Just incredible! BLM plan calls for more 4400 wells on the Pinedale Anticline. AP
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Politicians puffed up today in Washington over gas prices, each side with their own canned hyperbole-laden talking points at the ready. My pick of the day is House chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Rep. David Obey’s statements : An Inexhaustible Energy Source: Heated Words. But Can It Be Tapped? NYTimes “This is a con job,”…
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‘It’s pretty disgusting’. By Ben Neary. Casper Star Tribune. Here’s another thing the oil companies don’t mention in their drilling propaganda.
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Brian Ertz posted a story several days ago about this topic. This is my take. In the last week we have had the President’s answer to high energy prices, drill for domestic oil, and develop oil shale deposits. The primary economic result of this will be to enrich the oil companies even more. They don’t…
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Good for this basically Republican group, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. News release from TRCP. “TRCP Sues Interior Department over Mismanaged Wyoming Energy Project. Multiple violations of federal law drive sportsmen’s group to action on Pinedale Anticline, currently targeted for greatly expanded drilling and development” Matthew Brown’s AP story. Group sues to block drilling.
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As suggested in an earlier post (or two), the Bush Administration’s Fish & Wildlife Service is doing its best to take its decision to list polar bears and extend federal protections to oil companies with it : Oil Companies Get OK To Annoy Bears – AP
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With relatively high gas prices, oil companies, their political puppets, and media continue the reverberation suggestive of the idea that drilling for oil on federal lands will bring prices down. Framing policy issues in the media is the first step – the take comes shortly after. It seems logical that drilling on federal lands would…
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