[InterceptPoint]

The BLM gave the initial green light in 2007 for oil and natural gas development...

Note: a Bush Year.

[Da Coyote]

Sorry, but I believe the reasoning of a judge about as much as I believe the reasoning of the Obamadork or Goregoon.

[Sudetenland]

You can count on mindless, ignorant liberals always oppose progress and prosperity. After all, mankind is just a "virus" infecting "Gaia."

Unfortunately for them, the man who came up with the Gaia theory has just blasted these environmental wackos for their extremism--and he specifically pointed to their inane, reflex opposition to natural gas and fracking as examples.

We need to do what Newt was suggesting and purge the judiciary of these idiot liberal--agenda driven--judges.

[mountainlion]

These same type of ecofreak gave Colorado the Pine Beetle outbreak which turned millions of square miles of forest dead brown and is making fire fighting hard.

[Lion Den Dan]

Now the Western Colorado oii/gas rigs are flocking to North Dakota. Welcome to the Baaken.

[cripplecreek]

My congressman is pushing some good legislation and I encourage all FReepers to lean on their congressmen to get on board. He's got 100 cosponsors so far but the more the merrier.

Tim Walberg legislation to take global warming regulations away from EPA is gaining supporters

[epithermal]

On the other hand:

“Green groups balk as feds OK nearly 1,300 gas wells in eastern Utah “

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/54326521-78/desolation-wells-canyon-gasco.html.csp

“The plan to drill on 3,600 acres near the put-in ramp for float trips through Desolation Canyon includes areas the Bush administration agreed contain wilderness qualities, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance attorney Steve Bloch said, “and now the Obama administration is authorizing their destruction.””

Envirowackos just can’t get a break.

[Darren McCarty]

The question here is whether it is a bad judge or a bad law.

[PGalt]

Interesting. Thanks for posting. Thread BUMP!

[Exton1]

Has anyone else noticed that every part of the world is “ecologically sensitive?” They never describe what that means. You can be in frozen tundra, hot desserts, lush forests, middle of the ocean, or on a dry lake bed where nothing grows and no animals live and its all “ecologically sensitive.” We should start demanding what they mean when they use this catch phrase.

[CharlesWayneCT]

This gives me an idea. I wonder if somewhere in Obamacare it says “the department will thoroughly assess the impact” somewhere.

If so, if it isn’t thrown out by the court, we can start suing like the greenies, every time they try to implement a regulation, we can find some judge who will say they didn’t do a “thorough” enough job.

[1010RD]

The BLM gave the initial green light in 2007...

We're halfway through 2012, it looks like the green light didn't mean go.