SOURCE: climatewest.org
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Last week, Guardians submitted comments on Interior Secretary Zinke’s and the Wyoming Bureau of Land Management’s proposal to hold two oil and gas lease sales in March of next year.
Instead of turning over a new leaf in 2018, the Wyoming BLM is planning to giveaway 125,000+ acres of public land for fracking in the Wind River/Bighorn Basin District (northwestern Wyoming) and 48,000+ acres in the High Plains District (eastern Wyoming). Not surprisingly, based on the draft environmental analysis, Wyoming fails again to fully analyze the climate change impacts from the lease sales.
The Wyoming BLM continues to refuse to analyze the cumulative climate impacts even when the lease sales are occurring at the same time and in the same state (not to mention the 1 million plus acres leased in the West 2017). And, Wyoming continually touts the benefits of oil and gas while failing to even attempt to look at the social costs of releasing more carbon into our atmosphere (a requirement that two courts recently re-affirmed).
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Straight from the Horse's Heart 
Their voting on horse slaughter amendments make sure your calling Congress and telling them No horse slaughter period, n9 killing wild horses period.
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Remind C0ngress there will be a backlash or uprising if they vote to kill which is an masse sale horses!
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From Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
ABANDONED UNCAPPED WELLS POCKMARK WESTERN PUBLIC LANDS
Records Show BLM Does Not Shoulder Responsibilities to Ensure Reclamation
Posted on Mar 30, 2015
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management does a poor job of ensuring that abandoned, non-producing oil and gas wells are reclaimed as required by its own regulations, according to an analysis of records from Utah Field Offices posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The group is asking for an audit of BLM orphaned well reclamation in Colorado, New Mexico, and WYOMING,
Western states that the PEER record review did not cover.
BLM regulations require that oil and gas wells no longer producing in paying quantities should be plugged, related facilities and equipment removed, and disturbed sites re-contoured and revegetated. Plugging and reclaiming ends needless venting of methane and other greenhouse gases, prevents spills and contamination, reduces soil erosion, curbs fugitive dust and returns the site for wildlife forage
https://www.peer.org/news/news-releases/abandoned-uncapped-wells-pockmark-western-public-lands.html
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From Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
DONT DRINK THE FRACKING FLUIDS!
Toxic Well Flowback Pumped for Consumption by Wildlife and Livestock
Posted on Jul 09, 2013
Surface disposal of water produced by oil and gas drilling is forbidden in the Eastern U.S. but allowed in the arid West for purposes of “agricultural or wildlife propagation,” in the words of the governing federal regulation. Thus, the “produced water,” as it is called, must be “of good enough quality to be used for wildlife or livestock watering or other agricultural uses.”
In the last decade, fracking fluids often consisting of powerfully toxic chemicals have been included in this surface discharge. The exact mixture used by individual operators is treated as a trade secret. But one recent analysis identified 632 chemicals now used in shale-gas production. More than 75% of them affect the respiratory and gastrointestinal systems; 40-50% impact the kidneys and the nervous, immune and cardiovascular systems; 37% act on the hormone system; and 25% are linked with cancer or mutations.
https://www.peer.org/news/news-releases/dont-drink-the-fracking-fluids!.html
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From TAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE
DOI Royalty Policy Committee Does Not Include Any Taxpayer Advocates
September 01, 2017
Today Department of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced the appointees to the newly reformed Royalty Policy Committee. In March, Secretary Zinke issued a new charter for the Committee and solicited nominees through early July. Among the nominees was Taxpayers for Common Sense, president, Ryan Alexander.
In response to the announcement Alexander issued the following statement:
“The fair and accurate collection of royalties is vitally important to ensuring taxpayers receive the revenues they are due from the natural resources we all own. For decades, federally owned resources, managed by the Department of Interior, have been inadequately valued and royalties have been under collected, shortchanging taxpayers of billions of dollars in valuable revenue.
I am disappointed that neither I nor any other taxpayer advocate was appointed to the Committee. A committee dedicated to reviewing the policies that determine if taxpayers are fairly compensated for our assets should include an advocate dedicated to taxpayers. We hope the new committee will put aside their private or professional interests and put the nation’s resource owners-federal taxpayers- first.”
The first meeting for the Committee is scheduled for October 4th and is open to the public.
http://www.taxpayer.net/library/article/doi-royalty-policy-committee-does-not-include-any-taxpayer-advocates
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