Environmentalist attempt to block oil, gas drilling in key Wyoming sage grouse area

Star-Tribune ^ | October 30, 2013 | BENJAMIN STORROW

[george76]

Three environmental groups petitioned the federal government Monday to block new oil and gas development in an area of key sage grouse habitat near Douglas.

The petition came a month after Gov. Matt Mead announced a plan with Chesapeake Energy to allow drilling in what is known as the Douglas Core Area and represented an effort by environmentalists to counter what they see as an erosion of state sage grouse protections.

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WildEarth Guardians, the Biodiversity Conservation Alliance and American Bird Conservancy petitioned the Department of Interior and U.S. Bureau of Land Management to prohibit construction of new wellpads and roads

[Smokin' Joe]

LimoLibs tend to be as active in 'causes' through foundations and the like as their accountants tell them they need to be to achieve the most advantageous tax rate.

As for the Russians, well, the USSR had skin in the game back in the '70s when they ponied up seed money for outfits like Greenpeace and others to focus on throttling Western Industry in the name of a clean environment. You will find the Sierra Club as a party to many lawsuits, too. (They used to clean and maintain trails instead of try to clean up in the lawsuit lotto or score a settlement).

While there was undeniably some cleanup that needed to be done then, the cost/benefit curve is out of whack now, and new measures taken for small increments of improvement are incredibly expensive and/or restrictive and of questionable benefit (provided, of course that you are not of the mind that the oceans will inevitably boil away in the next two weeks from global warming).

[R W Reactionairy]

Thanks for the respnse. Where my [I am not the operator] wells are located [central OK] there are generally gathering systems available and flaring is routinely done during testing only. We do use small amounts of lease gas to run pumping units but the issue we have with that gas is slightly sour gas. That even large quantities of gas are being flared temporarily while awaiting connection to a gas plant makes sense to me. I don’t think this is being accurately described in the media [big surprise — not.]

[dennisw]

I doubt the transmission lines are there to take away the electricity. But they should work on it. Might put the local electric co out of business. Would the local electric companies want to buy this natural gas generated electricity

Eco-wackos make it hard to put up new transmission lines

[Flycatcher]

The state of Wyoming should tell the federal tyrants exactly where to shove it. I'm still patiently waiting for just one western state to do so. Sigh.

Thanks for the pings, FRiends! And speaking of eagles, I saw an adult golden eagle on the side of the road yesterday while driving home from a long stretch of field surveys. What a magnificent bird! Just love watching golden eagles.

[george76]

The sage grouse is becoming the son of the spotted owl in terms of the communist agenda to shut down farmers, ranchers, and energy production in the US.

[dennisw]

I would not eat an owl but sage grouse sounds delicious to me. I fail to see a problem here