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Biden* Picks Lesser Prairie Chicken over Oil and Gas Industry, American Jobs
Quote:The United States’ energy independence is under threat again as President Joe Biden invokes the Endangered Species Act to protect the lesser prairie chicken’s habitat, where the birds’ range overlaps the oil and gas rich Permian Basin.

The Biden-controlled U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials have proposed the listing, another reversal of former President Donald Trump’s policies, which opened up public land for use by Americans for oil and gas leases, ranching, and recreation:

Under the Act, if we determine that a species is an endangered or threatened species throughout all or a significant portion of its range, we are required to promptly publish a proposal in the Federal Register and make a determination on our proposal within 1 year. To the maximum extent prudent and determinable, we must designate critical habitat for any species that we determine to be an endangered or threatened species under the Act. Listing a species as an endangered or threatened species and designation of critical habitat can only be completed by issuing a rule.

The Washington Post reported on the development:

The decision, one of nearly two dozen new conservation measures the administration has adopted in the past four months, underscores President Biden’s push to unravel his predecessor’s environmental policies. Biden has targeted Trump’s energy and environmental policies or proposed one of his own at the rate of about one a day, according to a Washington Post analysis.

As its numbers have dwindled, conflicts over whether to protect the bird — and potentially hamper energy development in conservative-leaning states — have only intensified.

The federal government is proposing two separate designations to try to prevent the species’ demise. The southern population of about 5,000 birds living along the New Mexico-Texas border would be considered endangered, while a northern group would be listed as threatened, a less-restrictive designation. After taking input from the public, the agency will make a final decision on these listings within a year.

Amy Lueders, a regional director for the Fish and Wildlife Service, said on Wednesday that voluntary efforts to protect the birds have fallen short for the “long term” conservation of the bird.

Those in the oil and gas industry are sounding the alarm.

“I think it could have a substantial impact on oil and gas and energy development,” Wayne D’Angelo, a lawyer with Kelley Drye & Warren, said in the Post report. “It’s a threat that sort of kills investment and causes problems.”

According to the Post, Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Clay Nichols told reporters that the “things that would be prohibited” include actions deemed harmful to the bird or its habitat, which literally covers millions of acres of oil and gas rich land.

“Earlier this month Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-OK) and other GOP senators, including those from Kansas and Texas, urged Interior Secretary Deb Haaland not to list the bird under the Endangered Species Act given ongoing conservation efforts,” the Post reported.

“We strongly believe it would be imprudent and harmful to ongoing and unprecedented conservation efforts in our states for the [Fish and Wildlife] Service to issue what would amount to a premature [Endangered Species Act] listing proposal,” the lawmakers wrote.

In 2014 the Fish and Wildlife Service named the lesser prairie chicken a threatened species, but that listing was overturned in court. The Trump administration did not take action and was sued by environmental groups. A 2019 settlement required the Fish and Wildlife Service to make a new listing decision by May 2021.

The Post said the prairie chicken populations have gone for “millions” to about 27,000. The number of jobs and economic benefits that would be lost in oil and gas rich states if exploration and production were halted is yet to be determined.

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Quote:President Joe Biden’s administration will reportedly cancel several oil and gas leases granted in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in the last weeks of the Trump administration — days after defending similar leases on Alaska’s North Slope.

The decision was reported by the Washington Post on Tuesday, and would mark an attempt to reverse one of President Donald Trump’s historic achievements: the opening of ANWR’s coastal plain in his tax cut legislation in December 2017.

The Post reported that “Interior would halt the leases on the grounds that Trump officials rushed the Jan. 6 auction and did not follow proper procedures.” But environmental groups have also lobbied to reverse Trump’s decision on ANWR.

ANWR was set aside by Congress in 1980 — though biologists in Alaska have joked that Congress confused ANWR and the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) to the west, which has more wildlife and less oil and gas potential.

The fossil fuel industry has lobbied for ANWR to be opened, arguing that new technologies such as directional drilling and ice roads minimize the environmental impact and risk to wildlife. The local Iñupiat Alaska Native communities and the state government also support oil and gas activity in ANWR. But environmental groups oppose it, noting that the migratory Porcupine Caribou herd uses the coastal plain to calve. The Gwich’in Alaska Natives, who live further south but also hunt the caribou, and who would not benefit directly from oil and gas development, want ANWR to be closed.

Environmental groups also want ANWR close for the same reason they lobbied for the Keystone XL pipeline to be closed, though it is the most environmentally-friendly way to transport oil — namely, that they oppose all fossil fuel development, due to the risks of climate change.

Just last Wednesday, attorneys for the Biden administration Department of Justice defended the Willow oil project in the NPR-A, which was approved by the Trump administration last fall, fighting against a lawsuit by groups trying to stop it.

The country is currently experiencing a surge in gas prices.

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Quote:Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) decided to forgo actually doing her job of advising and consenting to Joe Biden’s various nominees, electing to instead vote for all manner of crazy and unqualified people in the name of bipartisan unity. She also recently voted for the so-called “January 6th commission.”

Well, that’s not working out too well, as Murkowski got served a large helping of said unity from Joe Biden today. It came in the form of the administration shutting down more oil leases in Alaska, further harming the state’s chief industry.

It’s almost like rubber-stamping appointments that are promising to destroy your state’s economy is a bad idea, right?

There is no need for another environmental review. They’ve been done over and over and what is happening in ANWR is proven to be safe. The oil companies follow extremely strict regulations, leaving no stone overturned when finished. The leases are not harming wildlife, and there’s no evidence to even suggest they are. Everyone knows this move by Biden is purely political. It’s a bending of the knee to the environmental lobby that helped bankroll his campaign. Now, more jobs will be lost, oil prices will keep rising, and the middle class will be hurt the most. No mean tweets, though.

Murkowski, for her part, voted to confirm Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and EPA Director Michael S. Reagan, both apparachiks of the left and both of whom have long signaled an openness to further limiting oil drilling. In other words, Murkowski is so attached to Washington D.C. that she spit in the face of her own constituents to give a bunch of wine-sipping, East Coast liberals a win. If a starker example of Republican impotence exists, I’m not aware of it (but to be sure, this isn’t the only one). Murkowski had such an easy setup to reject these appointments and show some semblance of care for the people in her state. Instead, she chose to keep her place on the cocktail circuit. And for what? The left still hates her and has returned none of her goodwill. As they say, a sucker is born every minute, and Murkowski no doubt was one of them.

Because of all this, Murkowski is facing a real challenge in 2022, and that’s if she decides to run again. Some of the things she’s been doing signal she may not even bother, and that would be a great thing for Alaska and the Republican Party.

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Trying to stop development in the Permian Basin is a declaration of war against Texas.
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the dipshite said he was gonna ‘muck the works’....

NOTHING SHOCKING ABOUT THIS
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Yet another insult to the intelligence of any American with at least half a brain.
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An AR-15 would take care of those little buggers.
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(06-01-2021 09:18 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  An AR-15 would take care of those little buggers.

I'd imagine there are some oil workers right now working to reduce the surplus population of prairie chickens in the Permian Basin.
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What a beautiful bird. We should be doing something to stop it from becoming extinct.
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We have the Attwater's prairie chicken in south Texas. It is also a threatened species. One problem it has is that it is extremely promiscuous and will bed down with anything, so the pure strain is dying out.
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(06-02-2021 11:48 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  We have the Attwater's prairie chicken in south Texas. It is also a threatened species. One problem it has is that it is extremely promiscuous and will bed down with anything, so the pure strain is dying out.

Well if it happens by natural means that's one thing.


Extinction by humans however should be avoided.
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Quote:Top elected officials for Alaska slammed President Joe Biden’s decision to freeze oil development in an Arctic oil preserve.

The Biden administration suspended oil and gas leases in the 1002 Area, a federally-designated oil preserve, of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) on Tuesday, reversing a Trump administration achievement in opening up the area after decades of lobbying by Alaska officials.

Republican Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy joined Alaska’s congressional delegation in slamming the Biden administration decision.

“The Biden administration’s actions are not unexpected but are outrageous nonetheless,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said. “Suspending leases in Alaska’s 1002 Area is in direct conflict with the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, through which Congress mandates an oil and gas leasing program be established on the non-wilderness Coastal Plain, and ordered at least two lease sales by 2024.”

Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) added: “DOI’s announcement suspending leases in the 1002 Area goes against the law, facts, the science, and the will of the Native communities on the North Slope. It is nothing more than a naked political move by the Biden administration to pay off its extreme environmental allies.”

The closure of the 1002 Area “disregards that fact-based scientific work, as well as the property interests of those who hold these leases, including the State of Alaska,” Sullivan continued. “It also utterly disregards BLM scientists and Alaskans from across the political spectrum — Republicans, Democrats, Independents, unions, working families, as well the Alaska Natives who live closest to the area and who fought for decades for the right to allow for the responsible development of the 1002 Area of ANWR in order to strengthen our communities and build a better life for our children.”

Rep. Don Young (R-AK) said: “I am extremely dismayed by the Administration’s decision to freeze oil leases in ANWR. Make no mistake; this suspension is a grave one, not only for those employed by Alaska’s energy industry but also for the Alaska Native community of Kaktovik.”

A tribe of Alaska natives living in Kaktovik village on the state’s Northern Slope, where ANWR is located, have long pushed to open up the 1002 Area to oil development. In 2017, Kaktovik village tribal administrator Matthew Rexford pushed Congress to open up the 1002 in a committee hearing.

“We do not approve of efforts to turn our homeland into one giant national park, which literally guarantees us a fate with no economy, no jobs, reduced subsistence and no hope for the future of our people,” Rexford told the committee. “We are already being impacted by restrictions of access to the federal lands for subsistence purposes – this is really disturbing to us since we have lived here long before there ever was a refuge designated.”

Alan Weitzner, head of Alaska’s Industrial Development and Export Authority also expressed his disappointment in the Biden administration’s decision to Anchorage Daily News. He did not rule out a lawsuit over the Biden order.

“We are very disappointed with this decision,” Weitzner said. “This is a major move the Biden administration has taken, and we’re trying to digest it. … We remain very focused on the rights we have under those leases.”

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someone remind me how prairie chickens are an integral portion of human survival...
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(06-02-2021 12:41 PM)Danforth Wrote:  
(06-02-2021 11:48 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  We have the Attwater's prairie chicken in south Texas. It is also a threatened species. One problem it has is that it is extremely promiscuous and will bed down with anything, so the pure strain is dying out.

Well if it happens by natural means that's one thing.


Extinction by humans however should be avoided.

Humans are part of nature.
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(06-03-2021 12:22 PM)bearcat65 Wrote:  
(06-02-2021 12:41 PM)Danforth Wrote:  
(06-02-2021 11:48 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  We have the Attwater's prairie chicken in south Texas. It is also a threatened species. One problem it has is that it is extremely promiscuous and will bed down with anything, so the pure strain is dying out.

Well if it happens by natural means that's one thing.


Extinction by humans however should be avoided.

Humans are part of nature.

You are correct. Humans are also part of nature but we are better than that. I do not want to be a part of a race that needs to exterminate the other animals on this planet in order to fulfill their needs.
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Cooked to a nice medium rare on the grill, a sharptail breast is as good or better than any steak cut from the back of a cow. ... While both prairie chickens and sharptails certainly can be found in the same places and eat many of the same things, prairie chickens taste better.


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Extinction OF humans however should be Mother Nature's goal. We're a virus.
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(06-04-2021 10:43 AM)Danforth Wrote:  
(06-03-2021 12:22 PM)bearcat65 Wrote:  
(06-02-2021 12:41 PM)Danforth Wrote:  
(06-02-2021 11:48 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  We have the Attwater's prairie chicken in south Texas. It is also a threatened species. One problem it has is that it is extremely promiscuous and will bed down with anything, so the pure strain is dying out.

Well if it happens by natural means that's one thing.


Extinction by humans however should be avoided.

Humans are part of nature.

You are correct. Humans are also part of nature but we are better than that. I do not want to be a part of a race that needs to exterminate the other animals on this planet in order to fulfill their needs.

you’re human, dipshite….ewe really don’t understand how #’s work…
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(06-04-2021 10:45 AM)shere khan Wrote:  Cooked to a nice medium rare on the grill, a sharptail breast is as good or better than any steak cut from the back of a cow. ... While both prairie chickens and sharptails certainly can be found in the same places and eat many of the same things, prairie chickens taste better.


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