oil and gas leasing

  • New Mexico’s Rep. Steve Pearce spreading lies and hysteria

    Ralph Maughan

    Long time wildlife foe, Pearce spreading lies about protecting lizard and jobs- Politics and reality clash in New Mexico. Posted on May 1, 2011 by Bob Berwyn. Summit County Citizens Voice. Although he was out of office for a couple years, newly elected Pearce (R-US Rep)  is up to his old tricks, made meaner for…

  • Forest Service rejects oil, gas leases in the Wyoming Range

    Ralph Maughan

    Oil and gas development of the Wyoming Mountain Range is very unpopular- Folks in NW Wyoming are rejoicing that the Bridger-Teton National Forest has announced the rejection of some of  the last of the requested natural gas leases in the Wyoming Mountain Range 20 miles NW of Pinedale (30 miles southeast of Jackson Hole). Forest…

  • Interior Department opening Colorado's North Park to gas and oil drilling

    Ralph Maughan

    “Certainly, if we want to supply some of our domestic energy needs, drilling is going to occur in places like this,” BLM spokesman Interior Department opening Colorado’s North Park to gas and oil drilling. By Bruce Finley. The Denver Post I can already see that “we” are going to get blamed for the Gulf of…

  • Interior Chief Slams Oil and Gas Groups' 'Election-Year Politics'

    Ralph Maughan

    Salazar condemns oil industry lies about leasing on public lands- Well good for the Secretary of Interior! I don’t watch much television, but when I do, I’m amazed at the number of ads energy companies are producing. I’d bet 90% of the population believes that “BP” stands for beyond petroleum, not the company’s actual name…

  • River, Wyoming Range bills move to Senate

    Ralph Maughan

    River, Wyoming Range bills move to Senate. Jackson Hole News and Guide. By Noah Brenner. The Wyoming Range bill, sponsored by Wyoming’s Republican senators, would withdraw a big area of scenic, wildlife rich and and unstable soil from oil and gas leasing (contrary to the party’s push to open everything up on public lands). It…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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