Ritter, Salazars protest federal auction of roadless land
Today, the federal government began auctioning off oil and gas leases on 14,400 acres of roadless Colorado land. Democratic gubernatorial nominee Bill Ritter joined Ken and John Salazar in asking "the nation's top federal land managers to stop the auction until the state enacts rules governing 4.1 million roadless acres," according to The Rocky Mountain News.The Ritter blog had this to say:
"The federal government promised to protect this land while states draft their own roadless protection plans," Ritter said. "That process is still underway. It would be a terrible betrayal of states' rights for the federal government to now put this forest land on the auction block."
Remember that photo of the protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989? The tank is the oil and gas industry. The president is driving the tank. And Ritter is the guy standing there in the middle of the road.
Photo courtesy of Bill Ritter for Governor.
1 Comments:
Good for Ritter, and I hope he can stop this.
Salazar, on the other hand, has lost My Endorsement since he decided to follow Lieberman on the road to perdition. And after I just said nice things about him, too.
What has been done to this country's environment over the past six years should be a crime. And maybe someday it will be, but by then it will be hard to bring it all back.
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