1/3 of pregnant women in this country have levels of mercury that are above acceptable levels. 70% of our waterways are polluted to the point that you can't swim or eat the fish. In Ohio, oh my god, you can't eat fish from ANY river, stream, pond or puddle! Although I do hear that they have a thriving rare-coin business....
[http://www.fieldandstream.com/...] has a great article on their site. Considering the top 5 articles on the site at the moment, I would not call this outfit left-leaning.
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Like huge numbers of sportsmen across the American West, however, Lackey is quick to tell you that there is nothing conservative about the pace or scale of energy development on public lands in the region. "This is a giveaway of public resources at the cost of every other value we hold," he says. "Oil and gas production has been elevated to the primary use of our public lands, even when the local people say no to it. The whole plan is like burning down your house to stay warm for one night."
Yes. Yes it is sir. And voting for this president in the first place was like, hmmm, I don't know, voting against your own best interests! Does it really take hell in a hand basket to make people wake up and start to do something?
It's largely a myth that public lands are restricted from development on a massive scale. Of all federal lands, 88 percent are open to oil and gas exploration. Until recently, much of that land was ignored because energy prices were too low to make it worth developing. That has changed, as anybody who pays a heating bill can tell you.
The rapid giveaway of energy-extraction rights has resulted in an unprecedented amount of drilling up and down the Rocky Mountain West, much of it on public hunting land. Many thousands of wells are planned or already in operation, as well as thousands of miles of roads and pipelines to service them. Here's a look at five regions that have been targeted for such energy development, and its potential impact:
The article goes on to list 5 places in the country that Bushco want to eat for dinner. It is good to see Field and Stream reporting on this issue. It is good people are now outraged by so many different things this whitehouse has done. It is good. Is it too late?
"If we continue this trend of keeping biologists in the office and preventing them from doing substantive work," said Belinda, "there is a train wreck coming for wildlife."