On December 19, 300,000 acres of spectacular red-rock canyonlands in Utah will be opened up to oil and gas speculators. Unless Bushco's fossil-fuels gang is stopped, lands near Canyonlands National Parks, Arches National Parks and Dinosaur National Monument, will be turned over to the highest bidder, then turned into an industrial wasteland. Subsequent auctions will follow, until the leases on 6.4 million acres are sold. In an exaggeration of the classic Friday-afternoon news dump, the Cheney Administration announced these plans on Election Day. They didn't even tell the National Park Service until it was a done deal. Frances Beinecke, President of the Natural Resources Defense Council , writing in Huffington Post: I thought I couldn't be shocked any more. After all, the past eight years have taught me that despite the availability of clean energy technology, the Bush administration will always place oil and gas drilling above all other options. But still I was caught by s...
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