Obama’s Caving Again
June 1, 2011 at 1:38 PM Leave a comment
The oil and gas lobby freaked out about this and it looks like it paid off:
The Obama administration is backing away from a plan to make millions of acres of undeveloped land in the West eligible for federal wilderness protection.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a memo to his agency that officials will not designate any public lands as “wild lands.” Instead Salazar said the agency will work with members of Congress to develop recommendations for managing millions of acres of undeveloped land in the West. A copy of the memo was obtained by The Associated Press.
“…[W]ill work with members of congress…” I.e., will work with members of congress who are owned by the oil and gas industry.
This is another notch against Obama on my this-isn’t-what-we-voted-for notch pole.
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