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    Tuesday
    May222012

    Western legislatures grab for control of public lands 

    DateTuesday, May 22, 2012 at 12:00AM

    Brought to you by ALEC and major corporations such as Koch Industries, ExxonMobil and Shell Oil Co.

    LINK (via:High Country News)

    The extractive resource industry and their paid members of congress like to push the notion that we need to open more of our public lands and waters for oil and mineral exploration.

    Maybe they should develop the land and water they already have under lease?

    More than two-thirds of offshore leases in the Gulf of Mexico and more than half of onshore leases on federal lands “sit idle.”

    LINK (via:The Washington Post)

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