Friday, July 07, 2006

Help Bill Winter

Help Bill Winter win the Map Changers contest, sez SquareState.

Sunday, July 02, 2006

Colorado's Pombo

Because screwing Rocky Mountain National Park isn't enough, since the Western Slope needs a good dose of exploitation. The Denver Post explains:
Last Thursday, the House approved Resolution 4761, a Pombo bill which would open America's coastlines to oil and gas drilling.

The bill also would require the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to make faster decisions about allowing natural gas drilling on public lands. If the BLM missed the new deadlines, believe it or not, the energy companies' drilling plans would be deemed approved. The provision upends the normal legal requirement that the BLM consider the environmental harm that drilling could do before giving the energy companies the go- ahead. Indeed, if Pombo seriously wanted to improve the BLM's efficiency, he would help get proper funding for the bureau. As it is, his proposal would just let energy companies delay the BLM effort in order to skirt several important environmental laws.

Lastly, Pombo is pushing to further lower the oil-shale royalty rate. It's ridiculous that at a time the federal treasury is carrying such a deficit, Pombo would give a new tax break to some of the country's biggest energy companies.

Last fall, moderates beat back many of Pombo's most extremist efforts. They will have to do so again now.

Guess how Musgrave voted.