Legacy of an Energy Boom

https://www.goedkoopvliegen.nl/uncategorized/obcf6brm2 Yesterday, I took an expansive, meta perspective on who’s responsible for climate change and the U.S. addiction to fossil fuels.

Tramadol Online Overnight Mastercard But make no mistake, the legacy of George W. Bush’s two terms, in all things related to domestic energy development, from deliberate lax oversight to eye-popping corruption, looms large today.  Rebecca Lefton at The Center for American Progress (CAP) has written a very useful post and timeline, documenting how the federal government, under Bush, became a handmaiden to the oil and gas industry.

Order Tramadol Online Mastercard I spent a lot of time in the 2000s covering the consequences from some of the events and policies that Lefton highlights. My focus was on the coalbed methane and natural gas boom in the West.  The searing impacts never really gained critical mass in the mainstream media and certainly were not much appreciated by the rest of the country. But the industry imprint chokehold was (and still is) felt acutely in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Montana, and New Mexico, where the gas drillers reign.

Among the many stories I wrote, I chronicled the devastating impacts to ranchers, to wildlife, to archaeology, and to public health. I wrote so much (and in varied venues, such as Science, Mother Jones, and Backpacker) about BLM Utah’s egregious capitulaton to the oil and gas industry that the state office in Salt Lake City stopped talking to me in 2008. None of what I documented in all these pieces has ever been challenged by BLM, nor has anyone ever been brought to account.

http://countocram.com/2024/03/07/gb9yjlsfr1o While I’m on the subject of Utah, I should mention that Selma Sierra, the person who served as BLM’s state director during the Bush Administration’s second term (prior to that she was Gale Norton’s chief of staff at Interior), was only just reassigned to Siberia the BLM Eastern States office, where she will serve in a “leadership position” overseeing the 30,000 surface acres in the 31 states east of the Mississippi. She’s actually swapping positions with Juan Palma, who will now manage Utah’s 23 million acres of public land.

https://musiciselementary.com/2024/03/07/dcb3kegyux2 Sierra’s legacy in Utah, like Bush’s legacy in the West, will be felt for many years to come.

One Response to “Legacy of an Energy Boom”

  1. Hank Roberts says:

    https://elisabethbell.com/bk9tqgozem Another legacy report just in:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10731408
    —-excerpt follows—-
    The head of the American Association of Professors has accused BP of trying to “buy” the best scientists and academics to help its defence against litigation after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
    “This is really one huge corporation trying to buy faculty silence in a comprehensive way,” said Cary Nelson.
    BP faces more than 300 lawsuits so far.
    In a statement, BP says it has hired more than a dozen national and local scientists “with expertise in the resources of the Gulf of Mexico”.
    The BBC has obtained a copy of a contract offered to scientists by BP. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/22_07_bp_contract.pdf
    It says that scientists cannot publish the research they do for BP or speak about the data for at least three years, or until the government gives the final approval to the company’s restoration plan for the whole of the Gulf…..
    —end excerpt—

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