Imagine a bunch of ranchers actually complaining about indiscriminate land raping! Guess it's not just the "Enviro Wackos" that are thinking the Bush Administration's environmental policies go a little too far.
Drilling needs limits, critics tell energy council
By Theo Stein, Denver Post Environment Writer
Don't sacrifice Western tourism economies or private property rights to expedite natural gas production on federal lands, the Rocky Mountain Energy Council was urged Tuesday by critics of the Bush administration's energy plan.
"Our ranch is destroyed," said Treciafaye "Tweeti" Blancett, a sixth-generation New Mexico rancher and one of several ranchers from Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming who raised questions about the council.
"We do not have a viable enterprise anymore because of the destruction caused by the oil and gas industry," Blancett said. "What we're asking is that you is do not let what happened to New Mexico happen to the rest of the West."
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Drilling needs limits, critics tell energy council
By Theo Stein, Denver Post Environment Writer
Don't sacrifice Western tourism economies or private property rights to expedite natural gas production on federal lands, the Rocky Mountain Energy Council was urged Tuesday by critics of the Bush administration's energy plan.
"Our ranch is destroyed," said Treciafaye "Tweeti" Blancett, a sixth-generation New Mexico rancher and one of several ranchers from Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming who raised questions about the council.
"We do not have a viable enterprise anymore because of the destruction caused by the oil and gas industry," Blancett said. "What we're asking is that you is do not let what happened to New Mexico happen to the rest of the West."
Rest of the story here
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