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Category Archives: Environment
Going Boulder: Fort Collins considers ban on plastic bags
Obama Mandates Oil Firms Hire Marine Mammal Observers
Any objection will of course be an admission that you want to kill all aquatic life.
“The Department of Interior (DOI) is requiring private oil companies to hire marine mammal and sea turtle monitors if the companies are granted a lease to drill offshore. A marine mammal observer’s job is to watch for whales, dolphins, and similar sea creatures and to advise on minimizing the underwater noise created by offshore drilling, which can affect the sea mammals.
The DOI announced in a press release last week that it will open up 20 million acres in the Western Gulf of Mexico for an oil and gas lease sale to be held Nov. 28, which is part of the administration’s “Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012–2017 (Five Year Program).”
The terms of the sale, which were finalized by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), include several environmental safeguards.”
Obama Administration Mandates Oil Firms Hire Marine Mammal Observers | CNSNews.com.
If Obama wins, the EPA will have blank check
Study Finds Electric Vehicles May Not Provide the Environmental Benefits They Claim
This is what enviro-statists want, to move us all into wind and solar, neither of which are currently able to provide for our energy needs.
Even if they could, it’s not the government’s job to get involved.
“Although EVs are an important technological breakthrough with substantial potential environmental benefits, these cannot be harnessed everywhere and in every condition,” the study authors write. “Our results clearly indicate that it is counterproductive to promote EVs in areas where electricity is primarily produced from lignite, coal, or even heavy oil combustion.”
Squash it and move on. Endangered spider halts $15MM San Antonio road project
The Left Is Incinerating America’s West
If I had lost my home or property to the wildfires, I would be in court suing these people right now.
“There is one word that sums up the required course of action: logging. The beetles have been spreading uncontrollably because continuously connected and extremely thick forests densely populated with mature trees provide the ideal environment for their proliferation. Logging to thin the forests of mature trees that afford the beetles their favorite homes would slow their growth considerably. Logging out tree-free gaps between sections of forests would impose quarantine limits on the epidemic. Logging out trees that have already been killed would remove fuel for the otherwise inevitable conflagration.”
EPA Official: ‘Hit [Companies] as Hard as You Can’ & ‘Make Examples Out of Them,’ Cites Crucifixion
“The top-ranking EPA official goes on to explain his philosophy of policy enforcement [emphases added]:
I was in a meeting once and I gave an analogy to my staff…the Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean. They’d go into a little Turkish town somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they saw and they would crucify them. And then you know that town was really easy to manage for the next few years.
And so you make examples out of people who are in this case not compliant with the law. Find people who are not compliant with the law, and you hit them as hard as you can and you make examples out of them, and there is a deterrent effect there.”
Agenda 21 Is The Forest. Don’t Miss The Trees In Our Back Yard
“Where do these home-grown smart-growth policies stand today? The Obama Administration has embraced them while also increasing environmental regulations and restrictions on the use of natural resources. But the White House isn’t the only one behind the smart-growth movement. Local and state officials, along with interest groups, are promoting the policies at all levels of government.
And that’s where smart growth must also be thwarted. It’s not just a matter of standing against the implementation of Agenda 21 at the national level; it’s also about protecting our own backyards against the home-grown threat.”
