Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., Rep. John Salazar, D-Manassa, and Rep. Mark Udall, D-Eldorado Springs, all support a moratorium that prohibits the BLM from using federal funds to finalize commercial oil shale regulations in the government’s 2008 fiscal year. That moratorium ends when the government’s fiscal year ends on Sept. 30, and all three Democrats are looking to keep the moratorium in place.
If I had a left leaning brain, I might have a clue just what the above quote means. The BLM at present is prohibited from using federal funds to finalize commercial oil shale regulations. This sounds much like a tricky dick sort of thing that could prohibit oil shale work of any kind on Federal land, which in Western States is most of the land. I’ll bet some dems are laughing their rear ends off.
On the other hand environmental zealots are about the same population as GLBT folks and equally as obnoxious far in excess of their overall percentage of the population. Since we live in the cleanest most environmentally sound and conscious nation on the face of the earth, it amazes me that Congress bothers to listen to the noise from them. Time for me to stop with the amazement.
Correct. The same legal requirements are used to prevent many federal owned areas offshore and on land, in the lower 48 and in Alaska.