August 26, 2009
11:37:48 MDT
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/newzephyr/august-september2009/pagespdf/au09-2-3.pdf ――――――――――>>>>>>
11:37:48 MDT
http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/newzephyr/august-september2009/pagespdf/au09-2-3.pdf ――――――――――>>>>>>
Jim Stiles puts it straight-forwardly. Both industrial factories are similar. It is the readiness of the privileged-classes of Americans that make one distinction or another regarding what it is that is ‘acceptable’ to them.
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http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.20/who2019ll-clean-up-when-the-party2019s-over/article_view?b_start:int=4&-C=
“Other critics argue that the BLM needs to demonstrate that it’s able to heal industrialized lands before it considers new development. “I don’t think we’ve seen enough successful interim and final reclamation that would justify using it as a wide-scale management approach,” says Nada Culver of The Wilderness Society’s Rocky Mountain regional office in Denver.
But the BLM is increasingly using the promise of reclamation to justify opening up ecologically sensitive areas. Last May, BLM National Director Jim Caswell said that his agency and the industry now have the means to carefully develop millions of additional acres of energy-rich public lands currently off-limits for environmental reasons. “With the means to make energy development a temporary use of the land, we don’t have to choose between energy security and
healthy lands,” he said.
As an example, BLM officials point to plans for energy development on Western Colorado’s Roan Plateau. Although environmentalists criticize the agency’s plan for allowing drilling on the top of the plateau, it does limit surface disturbance to 350 acres at any one time.
That effectively forces operators to reclaim parts of well pads while they’re still active before moving on to the next area. The BLM has adopted a similar approach for southern New Mexico’s Otero Mesa, home of one of the few remaining intact expanses of Chihuahuan grasslands.”
Does the plan call for mitigation― on say ½ acre of current drill pad― therefore, set in motion the creation of a new road and accompanying bull dozer for another 20 ac. pad to be disturbed?
I believe this policy is skewed in favor of the large corporations. And back to my friend Stiles’s dispute regarding the swapping of one industrial form on the landscape for the other.
Seems to me these are the very folks that remember to bring the ubiquitous plastic-re-usable sack to the grocery store- under pretenses to ‘save the environment’ only to fill said sack with mostly throw-away packaging. My opinion again, is that they somehow justify “FEELING” better about their selves and therefore bally-hoo and herald the wind farm scenario as opposed to the methane drilling-rig reality.
“Other critics argue that the BLM needs to demonstrate that it’s able to heal industrialized lands before it considers new development. “I don’t think we’ve seen enough successful interim and final reclamation that would justify using it as a wide-scale management approach,” says Nada Culver of The Wilderness Society’s Rocky Mountain regional office in Denver.
But the BLM is increasingly using the promise of reclamation to justify opening up ecologically sensitive areas. Last May, BLM National Director Jim Caswell said that his agency and the industry now have the means to carefully develop millions of additional acres of energy-rich public lands currently off-limits for environmental reasons. “With the means to make energy development a temporary use of the land, we don’t have to choose between energy security and
healthy lands,” he said.
As an example, BLM officials point to plans for energy development on Western Colorado’s Roan Plateau. Although environmentalists criticize the agency’s plan for allowing drilling on the top of the plateau, it does limit surface disturbance to 350 acres at any one time.
That effectively forces operators to reclaim parts of well pads while they’re still active before moving on to the next area. The BLM has adopted a similar approach for southern New Mexico’s Otero Mesa, home of one of the few remaining intact expanses of Chihuahuan grasslands.”
Does the plan call for mitigation― on say ½ acre of current drill pad― therefore, set in motion the creation of a new road and accompanying bull dozer for another 20 ac. pad to be disturbed?
I believe this policy is skewed in favor of the large corporations. And back to my friend Stiles’s dispute regarding the swapping of one industrial form on the landscape for the other.
Seems to me these are the very folks that remember to bring the ubiquitous plastic-re-usable sack to the grocery store- under pretenses to ‘save the environment’ only to fill said sack with mostly throw-away packaging. My opinion again, is that they somehow justify “FEELING” better about their selves and therefore bally-hoo and herald the wind farm scenario as opposed to the methane drilling-rig reality.
Either way the animals lose!
We must really have our priorities screwed up.
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