“What we're seeing here is the federal government coming in and adding another layer of regulation,” says Kathleen Sgamma, director of government and public affairs at Western Energy Alliance. Regulators are “saying we don't care about ... what the states are doing and what industry and nonprofit groups are doing to protect those species.”
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
New Flower Species Protections Pit Energy Industry Against Conservationists In Colorado
The recent placing of three Colorado wildflowers on the federal endangered and threatened species lists will make it harder to exploit untapped fuel resources in the Rocky Mountain State, a group representing the energy industry tells Fox News, an assertion the government denies.
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When gasoline hits $5-6 a gallon and it cost $600-1000 a month to heat your home, and your electric bill hits the same range, obama will give us a comforting speech about how he saved the flowers from dangerous oil companies and we should all be prepared to make sacrifices. And how, of course, the energy crisis is NOT his fault. Bush did it. And how he's going to need another four years so he can "finish" the great job he started. The only thing to get finished will be the United Staes of America.
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