Posted on 09/04/2023 6:31:14 PM PDT by Parley Baer
As part of a massive, pre-holiday weekend document dump by the Biden administration on June 30, the domestic oil and gas industry received an unwelcome gift from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), one that shifts Mr. Biden’s continuing war on oil and gas to the Permian Basin. In a notice published in the Federal Register, USFWS said it has determined a need to list the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard, long a topic of concern and controversy, as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.
Though a day past deadline, the notice of proposed listing will presumably satisfy a court order requiring the agency to issue a decision no later than June 29. It also upends the conduct of a longstanding conservation plan related to the Lizard, agreed-to in the midst of the Barack Obama administration and most recently updated in 2020, the final year of the Trump presidency.
Ben Shepperd, President of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association (PBPA), expressed surprise at the decision in an email. “We are extremely disappointed in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) decision to again list the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard as Endangered in the Permian Basin,” Shepperd said. “In spite of the successful conservation efforts on the ground for over a decade and that less than two years ago approving a conservation plan for the Lizard that all parties agreed would conser
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“The Texas Permian Basin oil fields account for 40 percent of America’s entire oil production, along with hundreds of thousands of related jobs and billions of dollars that wind up supporting education, medicaid and countless others. Creating a potential crisis the likes of which has never been seen in this country, Biden is poised to shut down oil production in the entire Permian Basin oil field thanks to a 2-inch lizard the US Fish and Wildlife Service just declared endangered a few days ago. The hearings are set for October 2. There’s millions and millions of these things, from west Texas, New Mexico, the deserts of Arizona and the deserts of California - but we gotta protect them from all that nasty oil in west Texas.
Can’t happen? It won’t be from a lack of effort on Biden’s part. Look what just took place in the Grand Canyon area which Biden just declared as a national monument in order to put a halt to critical uranium production.
I don’t personally believe a sitting President could singlehandedly cripple the entire US energy supply, throwing the country into total chaos over a lizard and actually get away with it but just knowing that piece of shit would be willing to try in order to appease a bunch of Just Stop Oilers is beyond the pale.”
I understand these lizards are all over the place.
Not really.
Oh, late homework? Meh, that’s okay. You get an “A” anyway. 🖕
There are other species of sagebrush lizards (and cute lil' guys they are!) which live in the AZ/NM/TX area but the dune species is far less common.
Drive by a USFWS[U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service] equipment /vehicle yard some time if you want to see how much money us taxpayers splash out on the latest greatest “six of everything” toys.
Old FillzDiapers ain't doing this - it's his puppeteers.
Drive by a USFWS [U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service] equipment/vehicle yard some time if you want to see how much money us taxpayers splash out on the latest greatest “six of everything” toys.
...... I would be currious to find out if Tree Huggers have ever found any "Endangered Species" where Rare Earth Elements (The ones used in Electric Vehicles) ... are mined ...... Just Wondering ..... Won't hold my breath ...
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what is stupid joe up to now?
i keep reading that stupid joe has a fear of being perceived as stupid
so he is stupid joe forevermore
I don't know about using the excuse of endangered species, but they block mining for cobalt and nickel in Minnesota.
FJB
LETS GO BRANDON
.... I'm not sure that Cobalt and Nickel qualify as Rare Earth Elements .... But you do have a point ....
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99.9% of all species that have inhabited the earth are extinct. This happened before man walked the earth and will continue to happen when man is gone. It is just nature.
I do not know if oil field production and exploration endangers that damn lizard. It may or it may not. I do know the leftist environmentalists lie. I was raised in the Permian Basin and saw them in abundance. I even shot a few in my youth circa early sixties.
I do know this, shutting down exploration in the Permian Basin will be devastating to the USA economy. If that lizard goes extinct it will have no effect on the economy. It should also be noted that the lizard lives outside of the areas of oil exploration (those that I shot) and even if the exploration destroyed their habitat (it does not) the lizard would live quite happily outside of the area.
Go to Google Earth and put in Pecos, Texas. Then look northeast. You will see literally thousands of drill sites. But if one looks at the area the drill sites occupy compared to the undisturbed desert it is minimal. The damn lizard is doing just fine.
99.9% of all species that have inhabited the earth are extinct. This happened before man walked the earth and will continue to happen when man is gone. It is just nature.
I do not know if oil field production and exploration endangers that damn lizard. It may or it may not. I do know the leftist environmentalists lie. I was raised in the Permian Basin and saw them in abundance. I even shot a few in my youth circa early sixties.
I do know this, shutting down exploration in the Permian Basin will be devastating to the USA economy. If that lizard goes extinct it will have no effect on the economy. It should also be noted that the lizard lives outside of the areas of oil exploration (those that I shot) and even if the exploration destroyed their habitat (it does not) the lizard would live quite happily outside of the area.
Go to Google Earth and put in Pecos, Texas. Then look northeast. You will see literally thousands of drill sites. But if one looks at the area the drill sites occupy compared to the undisturbed desert it is minimal. The damn lizard is doing just fine.
Just a note about the EPA. When it was formed it was truly needed. I was in the oilfield in the early sixties and it was bad but totally normal. When I left the oilfield in the 80s we had cleaned up our act due to the EPA. Uncontrolled industry caused great pollution of our air and water. They did not do it intentionally. They did it because it was cost effective and there were no controls on them. The controls were necessary and the EPA did a magnificent job in the beginning. The EPA morphed into an “environmental political organization” with left wing politics as its driving force. It is no longer an honorable agency.
I happen to know first-hand that these lizards are (or at least were) plentiful, and they make excellent payload as astronaut-lizards in Estes Model Rockets.
And, one must put fireproof wadding between the lizard and the nosecone blowing Estes rocket engine - otherwise the lizard gets cooked and welded to the plastic parachute.
However, with fireproof wadding, it is quite difficult, in fact, impossible, to locate the astronaut-lizard after the flight. The lizard seemingly goes on a permanent space-walk.
At least that was the situation in the Permian Basin some 60 years ago. I would love to know the current situation.
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