I saw an article the other day that said environmentalists were moving to have the federal land barred from shale oil extraction. In other news, a Federal Judge has barred Exxon form drilling offshore in Alaska off the North Slope.
Source?
Yep, the greens will battle ANY extraction of fossil fuel, anywhere they can. As you seem to be well aware, it is because the environmental movement has been hijacked by the socialist movement; the reds are now cloaked within the greens.
The war is being fought on the battleground of "global warming". The greens/reds have succeeded already in getting our Supreme Court to allow the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide, and some states to pass legislation effectively establishing CO2 as a toxin.
We are losing this war.
CO2 CANNOT be causing our current warming. The man-made CO2 in our atmosphere is a mere 383 parts per million, ALL the CO2 is less than one percent of all greenhouse gases in the air, 95% being water vapor. Studies have shown that CO2 increases FOLLOW rises in temperature, drop-dead proof that CO2 isn't the cause of our recent warming. Of the roughly 8 tenths of one degree centigrade that global temp rose during the 20th century, three-fourths of THAT rise occurred prior to the year 1940, that is, prior to the advent of the bulk of our smokestack industry. Botanists tell us that higher CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere allow plants to grow WITH LESS WATER, the addition of CO2 from my SUV can thus be a very good thing, as higher crop yields, more potable water, and the greening of deserts are just a few of the benefits. Follow the link below, and you will find 7,000 scientists who agree with everything I say above.
http://www.oism.org/pproject/