(A-01, WP) Federal Wildlife Monitors Oversee a Boom in Drilling

[rodeodance]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/21/AR2006022101793_pf.html


Federal Wildlife Monitors Oversee a Boom in Drilling
Energy Programs Trump Conservation

By Blaine Harden
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 22, 2006; A01

PINEDALE, Wyo. -- The Bureau of Land Management, caretaker of more land and wildlife than any federal agency, routinely restricts the ability of its own biologists to monitor wildlife damage caused by surging energy drilling on federal land, according to BLM officials and bureau documents.
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"The BLM is pushing the biologists to be what I call 'biostitutes,' rather than allow them to be experts in the wildlife they are supposed to be managing," said Steve Belinda, 37, who last week quit his job as one of three wildlife biologists in the BLM's Pinedale office because he said he was required to spend nearly all his time working on drilling requests. "They are telling us that if it is not energy-related, you are not working on it."


....."We are seeing the handing over of a multiple-use valley to the energy industry," Baker said. "This is a disaster in the making."

Rather than slowing down to assess wildlife impact and to allow energy companies to catch up to drilling permits already issued, as recommended by Baker's group, state officials and several national environmental organizations, the BLM appears to be stepping on the accelerator. It has just released a proposal that recommends granting permits for drilling 3,100 more wells in nearby Jonah Field -- a sixfold increase over the number of current wells.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. The damage this administration is doing breaks my heart. All the

protections and all the professionals that staffed the agencies are being eliminated. All in the name of greed.

[Clara T]

2. Using "multiple use" as the mantra

for rape of the land and extermination of any pesky species that get in the way of drilling.

Rec'd

BLM has always been an adjunct and friendly front for the energy barons.

[sweetheart]

3. drilling deep cores is really feng shui

Feng shui is to be had all around these days again,
As everyone knows, a really deep hole is important for the skin,
as we poke large needles deep in to our faces, inspired youth regain,
lost heroin syringes put hepatitis inside dulling the pain of the din.

Casual sex is the answer as any republican will tell,
if we fuck the land licensously, we will be forever cleansed of sin,
rape the earth, to root a dark eternal hell,
where citizens live in distrust, mining the souls of their kin.

But remember how feng shui it all is,
to bulldoze and war with the earth as if she doesn't care a toss,
why jerry the culture springer takes the piss,
so we fight on behalf of the earth and become michael moore's boss.

Fighting a war far beyond the comprehension,
how unintended effects affect the attention.