The West Is Nearing a Lockdown
Posted by Flootus5 9 years, 10 months ago to Government
On May 28, 2015, the Department of the Interior released their Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for 98 Resource Management Plans to address sage grouse species across 11 Western States.
If implemented this will be an economic and human train wreck for the Intermountain West.
To summarize in a nutshell, in the time period between the closing of the public comment period for the Draft EIS in 2014, to the May release of the FEIS, the BLM/USFS/USFWS cabal completely changed the maps, the preferred/proposed alternative plans and caught all but 1 of the western State Governors and their people in a blindside of epic proportions. The one State is Wyoming whose RINO Governor Matt Mead cut a deal with the federal agencies to adopt components of the State Plan and reduce the impacts to the oil and gas industry within the State. All of the States had spent millions of dollars, appointed Councils, Technical Teams to develop State plans to manage sage grouse habitat. Ten of the 11 State Plans were summarily brushed aside.
This affects me personally in that I am involved in a gold exploration project here in Nevada. We have been in the process of getting an approved Plan of Operations on public land for over a year. Last year the area of our project was mapped as Low Value Habitat for sage grouse by the fed botanists/biologists. The DEIS maps showed nothing in our area. The FEIS maps now shows half of our project area as Priority Habitat and subject for recommended locatable mineral withdrawals. They in essence are taking our project.
Moreover, they address and limit every area of human economic activity across 65 million acres of public land in the Intermountain West. Everything from mining, oil and gas, utility grade solar, wind, and geothermal, utility corridors, travel management (access), livestock grazing, leasable minerals, fluid minerals, closing rights of ways, you name it.
Arbitrary and capricious just begins to describe what they are doing.
If implemented this will be an economic and human train wreck for the Intermountain West.
To summarize in a nutshell, in the time period between the closing of the public comment period for the Draft EIS in 2014, to the May release of the FEIS, the BLM/USFS/USFWS cabal completely changed the maps, the preferred/proposed alternative plans and caught all but 1 of the western State Governors and their people in a blindside of epic proportions. The one State is Wyoming whose RINO Governor Matt Mead cut a deal with the federal agencies to adopt components of the State Plan and reduce the impacts to the oil and gas industry within the State. All of the States had spent millions of dollars, appointed Councils, Technical Teams to develop State plans to manage sage grouse habitat. Ten of the 11 State Plans were summarily brushed aside.
This affects me personally in that I am involved in a gold exploration project here in Nevada. We have been in the process of getting an approved Plan of Operations on public land for over a year. Last year the area of our project was mapped as Low Value Habitat for sage grouse by the fed botanists/biologists. The DEIS maps showed nothing in our area. The FEIS maps now shows half of our project area as Priority Habitat and subject for recommended locatable mineral withdrawals. They in essence are taking our project.
Moreover, they address and limit every area of human economic activity across 65 million acres of public land in the Intermountain West. Everything from mining, oil and gas, utility grade solar, wind, and geothermal, utility corridors, travel management (access), livestock grazing, leasable minerals, fluid minerals, closing rights of ways, you name it.
Arbitrary and capricious just begins to describe what they are doing.
