(01-26-2021 05:59 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(01-26-2021 05:41 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Back to the Biden Administration...

Are you environmentalists happy with his killing of the pipeline? Now, instead of a nice clean pipeline, the crude will have to be trucked down. Not to mention the jobs lost.

How about the ban on drilling on national lands? I understand that will be a major impact on New Mexico. Thousands of jobs lost.

Just wondering if this is something yall take as a good move.

The jobs aren't the issue here - the number of full time jobs added was minimal. It's the other issue - the less safe method of transportation - that's more concerning to me. I understand the rationale to oppose the pipeline, that providing this simple, easier, and safer process continues to support a really dirty type of fossil fuel production. But it ignores the reality that said production is going to continue, regardless of the pipeline.

(01-26-2021 05:59 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  I wasn't a supporter of the Keystone XL, but I was against the opposition to it.

I find that I feel that way about a lot of things!

(01-26-2021 05:59 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  I have absolutely zero issue with banning fracking, drilling, etc. on federal lands and support that decision. Our public lands are one of our best natural resources, and restricting their use for energy production helps to maintain their quality and health, and it reduces all of the impacts associated with that energy production and use.

I don't quite know enough to say that I support a complete ban for federal lands, but I certainly agree that conservation of such lands is the paramount consideration. After all, conservation is historically the chief reason for their establishment, and philosophically the essence of conservatism.