Posted on 07/24/2015 4:01:42 PM PDT by george76
Oil and gas producers in one of the most active drilling areas in the country have had to make concessions to not disturb species such as the lesser prairie chicken and the dunes sagebrush lizard.
Now industry officials in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico may have four other species to contend with: make way for the Cascade Caverns salamander, the Arizona toad, the alligator snapping turtle and the Rio Grande cooter.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday it is giving what it calls “status reviews” to the four amphibians and reptiles found in the Southwest as part of 21 species the agency said are worth considering after looking over requests from the environmental group Center for Biological Diversity.
“Although few people have heard of, let alone seen, a Cascade Caverns salamander or Rio Grande cooter,
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Industry representatives in Texas and New Mexico are still trying to determine if the four species could potentially affect drilling in oil and gas-rich areas such as the Permian Basin in West Texas and eastern New Mexico, the Eagle Ford shale formation in South Texas, the San Juan Basin in northwest New Mexico, as well as various formations in Oklahoma.
The Rio Grande cooter may have an amusing name, but the USFWS review has sent oil and gas officials in New Mexico scrambling, poring over maps to determine what the implications could be if the turtle receives federal protection.
(Excerpt) Read more at watchdog.org ...
More orchestrated mayhem from Obie specifically designed to damage America.
Wind and solar continue getting a free pass from any killings of protected species.
Yes
Satan is evil.
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Archeologist: “And here you see an oil field converted to a lesser sage brush habitat by the bizarre society that briefly flourished here so many years ago...”
I just got back from Farmington NM. Still lots of oil and gas work going on there, but not as much as a few years back.
I notice the La Plata irrigation dam has been completed right where I said it should be put 42 years ago, in Colorado.
Lot fewer oil and gas development vehicles in the Oklahoma panhandle.
Farmington, hot and dry. Here in NW Arkansas hot and humid! Wish I was back in New Mexico!
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