Feds Pull 31,000 Texas Acres From April Fossil Fuel Auction Due to Concerns Over Fracking Impacts to Land, Water, Climate
DALLAS – The U.S. Forest Service today withdrew 31,169 acres of national forest lands in Texas from a Bureau of Land Management fossil fuel auction slated for April 20 in Santa Fe, N.M. The move responds to concerns raised by environmental groups and local governments about fracking impacts, and comes one day before the Friday public protest deadline on the lease-sale plan.
Environmental groups on Feb. 9 called on the Bureau to halt the sale because of harmful environmental and climate impacts, public-safety concerns and the lack of notice provided to potentially affected residents. The withdrawn parcels constitute the vast majority of the 36,000 acres of public lands in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas that were slated for the April auction.
“We’re very pleased that the Forest Service pulled these lands to allow time to notify the public and address our concerns, but the reality is that no public oil and gas leases should be sold,” said Wendy Park, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity. “Oil and gas drilling results in the clearing of valuable public forests for well pads, roads and pipelines, while fracking threatens watersheds and public water supplies. Public fossil fuels must remain in the ground if we are to avert the worst impacts of climate change."
A nationwide study last year determined that halting new federal fossil fuel auctions on lands and offshore areas controlled by the U.S. government would keep up to 450 billion tons of greenhouse gases from polluting the atmosphere. Hundreds of people have turned out for “Keep It in the Ground” protests of BLM fossil fuel auctions across the country in recent months, with several auctions being canceled and author Terry Tempest Williams purchasing parcels in Utah yesterday in protest.
The parcels removed from the April auction are located in the Davy Crockett, Sam Houston and Sabine national forests. Several of the remaining Texas parcels for sale in the April auction underlie municipal water supplies that serve the heavily populated areas of Dallas-Fort Worth, Denton, Brenham and Corpus Christi. A letter from environmentalists, sent to the BLM and other federal agencies this week, highlighted the potential for fracking beneath Lewisville Lake, Somerville Lake, Lake Conroe and Choke Canyon Reservoir to contaminate drinking water for millions of people.
“As Texas residents and local officials learn about the plans to open up our public lands to oil and gas development they are asking the BLM and other federal agencies for a timeout,” said Cyrus Reed, conservation director of the Sierra Club’s Lone Star Chapter. “Serious reforms are needed in the BLM auction process so the public has an opportunity to raise concerns and insist on best practices, including not opening up certain lands to development at all.” (The 'BLM" is not even a valid 'federal agency but a private corporation working under the criminal cabal Wash DC corporation.)
Environmental groups on Feb. 9 called on the Bureau to halt the sale because of harmful environmental and climate impacts, public-safety concerns and the lack of notice provided to potentially affected residents. The withdrawn parcels constitute the vast majority of the 36,000 acres of public lands in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas that were slated for the April auction.
“We’re very pleased that the Forest Service pulled these lands to allow time to notify the public and address our concerns, but the reality is that no public oil and gas leases should be sold,” said Wendy Park, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity. “Oil and gas drilling results in the clearing of valuable public forests for well pads, roads and pipelines, while fracking threatens watersheds and public water supplies. Public fossil fuels must remain in the ground if we are to avert the worst impacts of climate change."
A nationwide study last year determined that halting new federal fossil fuel auctions on lands and offshore areas controlled by the U.S. government would keep up to 450 billion tons of greenhouse gases from polluting the atmosphere. Hundreds of people have turned out for “Keep It in the Ground” protests of BLM fossil fuel auctions across the country in recent months, with several auctions being canceled and author Terry Tempest Williams purchasing parcels in Utah yesterday in protest.
The parcels removed from the April auction are located in the Davy Crockett, Sam Houston and Sabine national forests. Several of the remaining Texas parcels for sale in the April auction underlie municipal water supplies that serve the heavily populated areas of Dallas-Fort Worth, Denton, Brenham and Corpus Christi. A letter from environmentalists, sent to the BLM and other federal agencies this week, highlighted the potential for fracking beneath Lewisville Lake, Somerville Lake, Lake Conroe and Choke Canyon Reservoir to contaminate drinking water for millions of people.
“As Texas residents and local officials learn about the plans to open up our public lands to oil and gas development they are asking the BLM and other federal agencies for a timeout,” said Cyrus Reed, conservation director of the Sierra Club’s Lone Star Chapter. “Serious reforms are needed in the BLM auction process so the public has an opportunity to raise concerns and insist on best practices, including not opening up certain lands to development at all.” (The 'BLM" is not even a valid 'federal agency but a private corporation working under the criminal cabal Wash DC corporation.)
Separately, the city of Dallas Water Utilities formally requested that 259 acres at Lewisville Lake be removed from the auction, citing concerns…
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The Bureau of Reclamation sounds like ...
"Established in 1902, the Bureau of Reclamation is best known for the dams, power plants, and canals it constructed in the 17 western states. These water projects led to homesteading and promoted the economic development of the West. Reclamation has constructed more than 600 dams and reservoirs including Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and Grand Coulee on the Columbia River."
Source: http://www.usbr.gov/main/about/
"The Reclamation Act of 1902 mandated that the construction costs of dams, canals, power plants, and other project facilities be repaid by the water users. Initially, irrigators were required to repay the government’s construction costs within 10 years. It often was the case, however, that water users simply did not have the ability to make their payments because the actual costs of construction, as well as those to establish a new farm, were much higher than expected. A downturn in the agricultural economy did not help."
Source: http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/ReclamationDamsIrrigationProjectsAndPowerplants/Reclamation_Hydroelectric_Power_Program_II.html
Do you think that this has anything to do with the Farmers' Claims ... ? (Dot connection; mind stuff for the aware)
The following video addresses Agenda 21 and the Hoover Dam - NOTE WELL!!! - The Crown has historical precedent with regard to culling of Nations.
Damned Nations: Do They Know It's Psyop? See 9 Min mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BgJEyT2oxA&feature=youtu.be
Treachery upon treachery by British Crown foreign agent acting President of the USG. Of course it goes much higher with USG military now occupying and militarizing almost every aspect of human existence. OBAMA PROCLAIMS HIMSELF MUSLIM USA Not a Christian Nation any longer! Here is Proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbn8JnJ9cu4
also see http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/tag/hoover-dam
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