{"id":905,"date":"2003-11-19T11:56:21","date_gmt":"2003-11-19T18:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/destroying-public-lands\/"},"modified":"2003-11-19T11:56:21","modified_gmt":"2003-11-19T18:56:21","slug":"destroying-public-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/destroying-public-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroying public lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oteromesa.org\/my%20pictures\/RockyMountainOG.jpg\" alt=\"map of oid &amp; gas development in the Rockies\"\/><a title=\"colorado environmental coalition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ourcolorado.org\/alerts\/100203_alert_energy.htm\">colorado environmental coalition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>What&#8217;s at stake<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Domenici-Tauzin energy bill spells disaster for America&#8217;s energy future and the farmers, ranchers, wildlife, recreationists, and rural residents of the West. Oil and gas provisions in the Domenici-Tauzin energy bill are <b>a radical departure<\/b> from the approach by Congress to managing our public lands in the West over the last 50 years. <\/p>\n<p><b>The bill seeks to entrench oil and gas development as the dominant use<\/b> of America&#8217;s western public and private &#8220;split estate&#8221; lands &#8212; at the expense of rural communities, wildlife, water quality, private property rights, recreationists, and family farms and ranches. <\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the bill unnecessarily increases subsidies to the oil and gas industry &#8212; to the tune of billions of dollars &#8212; all the while shifting liability for clean-up of abandoned oil and gas fields from energy companies to taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, speeding up drilling in the West won&#8217;t make America energy independent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>colorado environmental coalition What&#8217;s at stake The Domenici-Tauzin energy bill spells disaster for America&#8217;s energy future and the farmers, ranchers, wildlife, recreationists, and rural residents of the West. Oil and gas provisions in the Domenici-Tauzin energy bill are a radical departure from the approach by Congress to managing our public lands in the West over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/destroying-public-lands\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Destroying public lands<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}