Oil Wells 2 miles from Zion Nat'l Park?
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http://suwa.org/press-release-blm-announces-proposal-sell-oil-gas-leases...
If you've been there, you might wanna chime in. Or even if you haven't.
SALT LAKE CITY – National Park advocates, local residents and conservationists are stunned over a just announced proposal by the St. George field office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to offer two oil and gas leases less than two miles fromZion National Park in southwestern Utah. If developed, the two parcels could easily be seen from Utah’s most popular national park. The parcels are also next to the rural residential gateway community of Virgin and dissected by the North Creek drainage – a perennial stream which flows into the Virgin River, a designated National Wild and Scenic River.
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Oh yeah, a rock slide on
Oh yeah, a rock slide on Friday.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rock-slide-closes-2-miles-of-zion-natio...
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No bueno!
No bueno!
Send your thoughts here:
BLM is offering a 30-day public comment period on the Saint George Field Office environmental assessment (EA) prepared for the June 2017 Oil and Gas Lease Sale. The public comment period is open from January 10 to February 10, 2017. Comments can be made electronically by clicking on the "Comment on Document" button below. Written comments will be accepted by letter or email and must be received by 4:30 pm on February 10, 2017.
Comments for the St. George Field Office EA may be mailed to:
Bureau of Land Management
St. George Field Office
Attn: Dave Corry
345 East Riverside Drive
St. George, Utah 84790
or by fax to (435) 688-3252
Electronic Comments may be submitted to:
[email protected]
https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/eplanning/planAndProjectSite....
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Thanks, Stringtwang.
Thanks, Stringtwang.
Here's another link. https://www.blm.gov/programs/energy-and-minerals/oil-and-gas/leasing/reg...
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This is especiall important
This is especiall important because it will set a precedent at a time when the incoming administration would like to privatize all things public.
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No oil for money. Save Zion
No oil for money. Save Zion Know!
I will write a comment in the morning.
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Stop it before it gets
Stop it before it gets started. It's been a long fight for the Roan Plateau in Colorado.
"We're just going to drill a couple of wells, and a couple more and a couple more......."
http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2016/federal-plan-will-protect-roan-p...
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The proposal of these sales
The proposal of these sales is very concerning and obviously coming at a key time which does not bode well for the preservation of public lands and the immediately surrounding areas. I was appalled years ago on what I saw in CO near National Forest/BLM lands and the "developed" lands around those borders and I am sure it has not improved. There was a noticably clear line of tree-lined mountainsides accented by barren rock and dust kicked up by massive earth-moving vehicles and other drilling mechanisms.
This will be a continuing and growing fight playing out particularly in the west and across the country very soon. The public land sales/auction laws and associated rules have probably been bent since then, but a similar attempt to release some areas in S Utah by W" Bush on his way out of office was mitigated by a University of Utah student and environmental activist whom out-bid the fat cats but ultimately had insufficient funds....but he also subsequently spent time in jail for it as well.
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Here's a pic of the lands Tim
Here's a pic of the lands Tim DeChristopher went to prison for 2 years for. He didn't think it would look better with oil rigs on it.
With rigs.
Strawbud, SUWA just announced a settlement to their lawsuit regarding the management plans pushed through in 2008 in the last days of the W Bush administration.
http://suwa.org/press-release-settlement-reached-utah-land-use-plans/
In a sick, twisted, and frustrated state of mind, I almost wish they'd do these 2 leases so the millions of visitors to Zion could see just how depraved the bastards are, and what they would do to pristine lands throughout the state and nation, hopefully to create an unstoppable groundswell that perseveres into the future.
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BLM has always stood for
BLM has always to me been known as the for Bureau of Livesock and Mining. This thing shouldn't pass on the viewshed study alone.
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While we're on the subject of
Across, it's a new world. A "Bizarro World", like in the Superman comics. Ideas and legislation that makes no sense at all will pass through like a greased pig.
It's a very, very scary time.
While we're on the subject of threats, there was story in the SL Tribune this week about Orrin Hatch meeting with Twump's choice for Interior Secretary, where he's pumping one of the most anti-environmental members of the state legislature as head of BLM. This would be one of the worst things that could happen for the lands in Utah.
Former BLM Director Pat Shea said it would be like sending an atheist to teach Sunday School. I agree. He makes James Watt look like Al Gore.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/4813918-155/hatch-prods-interior-nominee-to-h...
From the story -
In addition to discussion of national monuments, Hatch said that during his meeting with Zinke he also advocated for Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, to direct the Bureau of Land Management. Hatch provided "a number of letters," recommending Noel for the position.
"Paired with his experience as a state legislator, his appreciation of the complex administrative dynamics within the BLM make him uniquely qualified for the position," Hatch wrote in his endorsement.
Noel previously worked for the BLM for about 20 years but has since been a vocal critic of the agency and has been a supporter of efforts to turn federal lands over to state control.
His bid to head the agency has been backed by a number of Utah leaders. In addition to Hatch, he has lined up support from Gov. Gary Herbert, Attorney General Sean Reyes, former BLM director Kathleen Clarke and Don Peay, state director for Trump's Utah campaign. Conservative groups also have endorsed him, including the Western States Sheriffs Association, off-road advocates like the Utah Shared Access Alliance and Blue Ribbon Coalition, and the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration.
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I just heard a song on the
I just heard a song on the radio today
You can't get enough money from the wilderness today
Looking for Clan Dyken's
Shut the Dry Ranch Down
I love Zion
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A fractivists blog
A fractivists blog
https://fromthestyx.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/the-oil-and-gas-industrys-p...
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Meh. Utah is pretty much a
Meh. Utah is pretty much a radioactive wasteland from all the above ground testing at the Nevada Test Site anyway, isn't it?
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Yep, you're exactly right.
Yep, you're exactly right. Stay away.
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The cancer rates in places
The cancer rates in places like St. George are pretty alarming.
The AEC (precursor to the DOE) actually had a policy of waiting for the prevailing winds to blow towards Utah before they tested a weapon; avoiding Los Angeles.
Good times.
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Imagine No Need For Oil...
Imagine No Need For Oil...
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provo's smog is fairly
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Despite the downwinders'
Despite the downwinders' worries, the A.E.C. remained adamantly opposed to changes in the test series, according to now-declassified commission records. ''I think this will set the weapons pro-gram back a lot, to go to the Pacific,'' said Commissioner Libby at the A.E.C.'s Feb. 23, 1955, meeting. ''People have got to learn to live with the facts of life,'' he continued, ''and part of the facts of life are fallout.'' At the same meeting, Commissioner Thomas E. Murray asserted, ''We must not let anything interfere with this series of tests - nothing.''
The next day, Feb. 24, another pinkish cloud appeared over Cedar City, Utah, and remained there for several hours. The sky was hazy, and fallout dusted the ground. Local children, recounted a resident, ''ate it, walked in it, breathed it . . . . You know how little kids love snow. They went out and would eat the 'snow'.''
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/09/magazine/downwind-from-the-bomb.html?pagewanted=all
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Utah has probably borne more
Utah has probably borne more of the atomic burden than any other state; besides Nevada of course, being the actual test site.
I feel sorry for folks living there. Place is hot as a goddamn pistol.
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UT certainly does have its
UT certainly does have its issues and there is also no excuse for much of what the state's delegation says and does. Politics side, I know someone that grew up near Crater Lake, OR whom also said they had orange snow around the same time of some of the Pacific/atoll site testing back then too. Nasty.
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Here are some shots (I will
Here are some shots (I will try to get them uploaded anyway) that were taken yesterday afternoon during the relatively short drive down Little Cottonwood Canyon between Alta SKi Area and the Salt Lake Valley, showing the "inverted" air conditions that exist in valley areas when low pressure persists and become more so intensified when snow is on the ground. The valley air stagnates and becomes more pollution-concentrated while the typically clear blue sunny skies and warmer temps remain at elevation.
Yes, it does suck to be in the valley during these events and population growth makes it all the more complicated....but I am sure it was no picnic back when coal burning and open smokestacks were more widespread as well.
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Sorry, that would be "when
Sorry, that would be "when HIGH pressure persists".
Many places across the country have been overly whipped by largely human-executed activities. I have relatives in S CA's Inland Empire and their tap water is basically undrinkable due to years of industrialized military waste being dumped and then seeped into the groundwater, not to mention commonly bad air from excessive fine particulate matter in the wind due to its proximity to/in the desert, construction, etc.
A loop-hole the govt uses around Vegas and other areas to get round non-compliance to EPA rules/laws is getting declarations and designations of "non-attainment" - Nice. What a way to just give up, huh?
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Here is some more background
Here is some more background on inversions:
http://www.exploreutah.com/GettingAround/Utahs_Weather_The_Inversion.shtml
At any rate - and I apologize if I got off topic in this thread - it would suck having mineral and other resource extraction so close to ANY National Park....or designated National Monument ;)