Houston, TX – (SFTHH) To the delight of environmentalists and wild horse advocates the construction of the $3 billion Ruby Pipeline has been delayed. The pipeline is slated to run through pristine wilderness from Wyoming through northern Utah and Nevada to Oregon. The project has been the reason that wild horse advocates claim the BLM has been gutting the publicly owned northern Nevada ranges of their native, American wild horses.
Archive for May, 2010
BLM/El Paso Corp’s Controversial Ruby Pipeline Project Hits a Snag
Posted: May 31, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: Equine, Equine Welfare Alliance, Habitat for Horses, Herd Watch, Horse, horses, Jerry Finch, Mustang, R.T. Fitch, The Cloud Foundation, Western Watershed Projects, wildhorse, wildmustang
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Ken Salazar Appoints Bob Abbey from Morally Bereft BLM to repair “Corrupt” MMS
Posted: May 30, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, The Force of the Horse, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: animal cruelty, BLM, Bob Abby, Cruelty to animals, Equine, Horse, Ken Salazar, Mustang, United States Secretary of the Interior, Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
It’s Sunday, May 30, 2010 and thousands of barrels of oil are continuing to gush into the Gulf of Mexico while tens of thousands of native, wild horses are languishing and dying in concentration camp style pens out west. What do these two disasters have in common; Secretary of Interior (DOI) Ken Salazar and Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Bob Abbey.
Equine Welfare Alliance President Speaks of Pro-Horse Progress
Posted: May 30, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, The Force of the HorseTags: Cruelty to animals, Ed Butcher, Equine, Equine Welfare Alliance, Horse, Horse Meat, Horse Slaughter, John Holland, political stupidity, United States, Wyoming
The question was asked about how we at EWA feel about our progress against horse slaughter this year.
Please understand that we regard this whole process as an analogy to war. It is not fought on a single front or with a single strategy and there are many operations that we cannot talk about without giving away our advantage. Sometimes we can divulge things later, and sometimes not at all. For example, you probably now know that we worked hard to get the town of Harding access to the pollution and sewer records from Cavel, Dallas Crown and NVF. We did not go to them and say “please don’t build a plant that kills our beautiful horses.” We showed them that a plant would be bad for the community and we also showed them that there was no pot of gold.
Americans Call for Urgent Reform in Department of Interior’s Wild Horse and Burro Program
Posted: May 28, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: Craig Downer, Equine, ginger Kathrens, Horse, Ken Salazar, Mustang, The Cloud Foundation, Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
Washington, D.C. (May 28, 2010)— Currently being questioned by the House Committee on Natural Resources regarding the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Ken Salazar has come under fire for his lack of oversight on offshore drilling. Wild horse advocates contend that the mismanagement extends not just to an unparalled ecological disaster at sea, but a humane, environmental and fiscal disaster on our public lands. Wild horses and burros are being rounded up off their legally designated homes on Western ranges while extractive industries are allowed to monopolize public lands at enormous expense to the American taxpayer and the environment.
Is It Time for Salazar to Resign?
Posted: May 27, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: BLM, Center for Biological Diversity, Endangered Species Act, Equine, Gulf of Mexico, Horse, Ken Salazar, Laura Allen, Marine Mammal Protection Act, Mineral Management Service, MMS, Mustang, United States Secretary of the Interior, wildhorse, wildmustang
Story by Laura Allen of the Animal Law Coalition The shocking oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has prompted the Center for Biological Diversity to issue a notice of its intent to sue Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, and the Minerals Management Service (MMS), which is under his jurisdiction. CBD charges Salazar has [...]
Push to Save America’s Wild Horses Continues after Judge Dismisses Case on Technicality
Posted: May 26, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: BLM, cloud, Craig Downer, Equine, ginger Kathrens, Horse, Mustang, Terri Farley, The Cloud Foundation, Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
Washington, D.C. (May 25, 2010)— Solely on the basis of standing and mootness the lawsuit brought against the Department of Interior (DOI) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) by In Defense of Animals (IDA), wildlife ecologist and Cloud Foundation Board Member Craig Downer and author Terri Farley was dismissed by the Honorable Judge Paul L. Friedman of the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. on May 24th. The Cloud Foundation continues to call for the return to the wild of the beleaguered Calico horses now in holding pens. To date at least 90 horses have died, 40 or more mares had spontaneous late term abortions due to stress and an unknown number of young foals have died in the privately-owned feedlot-style pens in Fallon, Nevada where the majority of the captured horses are held without windbreaks, shade or cover.
Former Government Lawyer Now on the Bench Rules in Favor Of the BLM in Calico Suit
Posted: May 25, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/MustangsTags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Calico Complex, Cruelty to animals, Department of Interior, Equine, Horse, Horseback Magazine, Mustang, Nevada, San Francisco, Steven Long, Terri Farley, United States, Western United States, Wild Horse, Wild Mustang
HOUSTON, (Horseback) – A federal judge who spent part of his career working as a government lawyer today found in favor of a controversial Obama Administration agency. Judge Paul L. Friedman dashed the hopes of lovers of wild horses when he dismissed a lawsuit challenging the legality of housing thousands of Mustangs in huge holding pens in the American West.
