Posted on 01/15/2009 8:44:34 PM PST by FocusNexus
The Senate on Thursday approved a sweeping conservation measure as it tries to reverse years of rollbacks in environmental protection by the administration of outgoing President George W. Bush.
On a vote of 73-21, it passed a package of nearly 170 land and water bills and sent it to the House of Representatives, which was expected to give it final approval.
Barack Obama is set to sign it into law after he is sworn in as president on Tuesday, one of the first moves in what is likely to be a more aggressive approach toward the environment.
Democratic Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico called it one of the broadest conservation measures in decades. Mostly Republican critics, however, said it would deny access to lands for possible oil and gas drilling.
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Under bill, giant chunks of California stay wild
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/15/MNO215B3BA.DTL
The Senate approved a major expansion of wilderness areas nationwide Thursday, protecting more than 2 million acres of public land from drilling, logging and mining, including 735,000 acres across California.
The 73-to-21 vote was a huge victory for conservationists, who convinced Senate leaders to roll 160 wilderness bills into one giant package. The bill would permanently protect lands in nine states, from the Eastern Sierra Nevada in California to Oregon’s Mount Hood and from Utah’s Zion National Park to the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia.
A nation rich in resources refuses to use them....
In the coming century, Chinese historians writing about the fall of America will all ask: “What were they thinking? Were they even thinking at all?”
Then they will laugh. Around the world, we will no longer be despised as “ugly Americans.” We will be ridiculed as “stupid Americans.”
It is a pro terrorism bill because it insures that domestic drilling and mining is limited and more oil is imported from radical middle east states.
You hit the nail right on the head.
Who were the republican Quislings who voted for this monstrozity?
We hunt terrorists, don't we?
Hopefully the folks in the North(NE) enjoy the cost of their
Home Heating Oil!!!
NEXT winter is gunna be tuff on them...
What rollbacks? There weren't any.
its an anti-jobs bill.......imagine a country NOT using its own resources to stay independent and free while providing vast employment opportunities for its own citizens.
I thought all of the current crop (or is it crap) of republicrats were Quislings...
Seeing as how wildfires is the one thing that California is in need of increasing.
It will not be legal...any law the man signs is not legal.
Probably blocking drilling in ANWR too. Idiots.
Yes it is, and I've already got near permanent knot in my gut, and a splitting headache.
A little range time would probably help me relax a bit.
Enjoy it while you can. I'll bet the lefties seize ranges and label them a toxic sites because of the lead.
later
Well, then I'll just have to set up some silhouette targets on the side of the hill across the creek, that's about as far I can shoot anyway, and it's all, including the creek, on my mother in law's place. No body around there is going to report gunfire, certainly nothing as tame a 7.62 NATO one round per trigger pull. If I had a belt fed machine gun, that they might report, or maybe not, considering it came from the "gun nut" farm, and the neighbors are used to it. Of course all but one is even farther away. I don't know who lives on that place now, since I think the long time owner has either passed away, or moved "in to town". But if he still lives there.. well he's used to it too, and would often hop on his 4 wheeler and come say hello when he heard us shooting. I know he'd be interested in a belt fed. Probably would want to shoot up a bunch of my ammo with it.
But unfortunately, I don't have a belt fed. :(.
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