HotAir by Beege Welborn July 06, 2023
Biden killing whales and raptors for wind, now using a lizard to shut down oil
This White House must get down on their knees and thank whatever Babylonian gods they worship when a weekend holiday rolls around. They can slide the shiv in just that quick and hope no one notices in all the hubbub of fireworks or finding a cubby full of blow in the Big House.
Which is precisely what they did this Friday, right before the weekend stretched out to Fourth of July.
A successful conservation effort between land owners and oil and gas industry types that had been working for eleven years was, for all intents an purposes, summarily spiked by Biden’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).
They’ve proposed a rule to declare the dunes sagebrush lizard “endangered” under the restrictions of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and it’s too bad, so sad for the oil industry that the little scamps just happen to live all over the Permian basin.
Eleven years, oil and gas operators and landowners banded together to avert the listing of the dunes sagebrush lizard as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. Then-Interior Secretary Ken Salazar even visited the area to tour lizard habitat outside of Goldsmith.
Now the US Fish & Wildlife Service has announced a proposed rule to list the lizard as endangered under the ESA. The decision serves as the 12-month finding on a petition to list the lizard and satisfies a court-ordered deadline to deliver the finding to the Federal Register by June 29, 2023.
…Commented Ben Shepperd, president of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association, “We are shocked and dismayed at this decision. Unfortunately, announcing this before a national holiday is yet another tactic this administration likes to use.”
…More than 3 million acres of lizard habitat in Texas and New Mexico is enrolled in conservation agreements and efforts to protect the lizard have been working for over a decade, Shepperd continued. “Unfortunately, the Fish and Wildlife Service refuses to acknowledge its success.”
More:
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/07/06/biden-killing-whales-and-raptors-for-wind-now-using-a-lizard-to-shut-down-oil-n562745
