It’s hard to lead the charge against the global consumption of fossil fuels while making money off the sale of them. Perhaps in recognition of this conundrum, the U.S. Bureau of Land
Management, which manages some 245 million acres of public land, has
announced it will postpone an
oil and gas lease auction scheduled for December 10 until March 17,
2016. The leases for sale include nine parcels of land in Arkansas and
Michigan, totaling 587 acres, eligible for fossil fuel exploration. That
means the federal government won’t be selling off land for oil or gas
development just as the COP21 climate talks in Paris approach their
dramatic conclusion. The planned sale had been drawing heat from climate activists, who
are rallying behind the “keep it in the ground” philosophy that to
prevent the worst effects of climate change, the world needs to leave
most of fossil fuel reserves untapped...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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