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Sage grouse's fate shaping energy development in US West
Standard Examiner ^ | December 04, 2014 | MATTHEW BROWN and MEAD GRUVER

Posted on 12/04/2014 1:00:37 PM PST by george76

Sales of leases on 8.1 million acres of federal oil and gas parcels — an area larger than Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined — are on hold because of worries that drilling could harm greater sage grouse... the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s delay on the parcels underscores just how much is at stake for an industry that finds its future inextricably intertwined with a bird once known primarily for its elaborate mating display.

The grouse’s huge range, covering portions of 11 states and an area more than four times as big as New England, includes vast oil, gas and coal reserves and the best type of windy, open country for developing wind power.

“We’re not real happy about it. It’s not even an endangered species

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Sage grouse receive frequent comparisons to the Northern spotted owl, another imperiled bird that stirred a fight over logging

(Excerpt) Read more at standard.net ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: Idaho; US: New Mexico; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: agenda21; animalrights; ar; bird; blm; coal; ecoterrorists; endangered; endangeredspecies; energy; energydevelopment; esa; farming; forestservice; gas; greatersagegrouse; grouse; logging; mining; oil; owl; privateproperty; rewilding; rs2477; ruralcleansing; sagebrush; sagegrouse; spottedowl; unagenda21
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1 posted on 12/04/2014 1:00:37 PM PST by george76
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They act like a drilling rig and well will be spaced every 50 feet or so. There won’t be that many of them compared to the size of the bird’s range.

This is the same stupid argument they made about the Alaskan pipeline hurting or destroying the Caribou migration routes.

Wrong then : Wrong now.


2 posted on 12/04/2014 1:03:13 PM PST by txnativegop (I'm out of ideas about tag lines.)
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To: george76

We’re talking about thousands of square miles, and a drilling pad takes 10 acres tops. A square mile is 640 acres.

I can’t see the problem here.


3 posted on 12/04/2014 1:06:35 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods burn. When whites riot, nations and CONTINENTS burn))
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To: Don W

What the enviros never mention is, oil and gas have a far smaller footprint than wind and solar.


4 posted on 12/04/2014 1:08:30 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: george76

Birds are not stupid. They will adapt and thrive. Probably wind up with more sage grouse that there is now..................


5 posted on 12/04/2014 1:09:24 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: txnativegop; Don W

The real issue is not about a bird.

Chicken farmers could likely raise millions of these birds.

Guess the real issue.


6 posted on 12/04/2014 1:09:30 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: TEXOKIE; Whenifhow; Mr. Silverback; cripplecreek; NoLibZone; Lucky9teen; Pete; bicyclerepair; ...

UN Agenda 21 ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


7 posted on 12/04/2014 1:11:43 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Ahhh, so this is how they plan to control the Wild West, the fracking, the cowboys. hmmmmm.


8 posted on 12/04/2014 1:11:54 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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Just the latest example of Obama shutting down drilling on Federal Land.

I'm waiting for Obama to take credit for the current low gas prices.

9 posted on 12/04/2014 1:13:08 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: george76

Save a roughneck, eat a sage hen.


10 posted on 12/04/2014 1:18:12 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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For being such a endangered bird, I see a tremendous amount of them all through central to northern Nevada. They are almost as common as bunny rabbits.


11 posted on 12/04/2014 1:19:57 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%i)
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To: jazusamo

Grouse deserve to be treated well. I find that putting some bacon on top, before popping them in the oven, helps keep them nice and juicy.


12 posted on 12/04/2014 1:33:07 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: george76

INTERESTING, the US gov. permits the abortion of human beings, yet wants to save the life of sage grouse.

Apparently, grouse are more important than human beings.


13 posted on 12/04/2014 1:36:50 PM PST by kitkat
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Exactly, and it saves the trouble of constant basting.


14 posted on 12/04/2014 1:41:25 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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To: george76

They’ll stop drilling, but not stop wind farms, for birds.

Hmmmm.


15 posted on 12/04/2014 1:44:10 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: george76

We have some Sage Grouse around here on the western slope. Have to watch for them during Grouse season as they are protected.

The favorite grouse hang out when they are mating is under a big walkie-talkie repeater for the local firemen. It reflects signals so they can talk across the hills during wildfires. It looks like a small drive-in theater screen on a grassy knob. Manmade structures either attract them or don’t bother them, how about that?


16 posted on 12/04/2014 1:48:43 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Life is good.)
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To: george76

"I don't see any grouse."

17 posted on 12/04/2014 1:51:30 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: george76

Tyson or Foster farms, please pick up the contract phone.


18 posted on 12/04/2014 1:53:52 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: george76

Species come...species go. Don’t mess with Nature you enviro-nuts.


19 posted on 12/04/2014 1:54:45 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: george76

Also, I am a partner on 38 acres of mineral rights currently producing nat gas in Texas. There is nothing visible on the land. The wellhead is on a 2 acre site with 4 other wellheads about 3/10 of a mile away, across a highway. The pay hole runs horizontally through 18 different property/mineral right owners for several miles.


20 posted on 12/04/2014 1:55:41 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Life is good.)
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