Friday, May 06, 2005
"No Tree Left Behind"
In his continuing effort to dismantle everything from the Clinton administration, Georgieboy has now declared war on trees.
Why doesn't he just get to the point and say, "Fuck the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge, fuck the national forests, and fuck all you environmentalists." It's what he really wants to say. I just wish he'd quit beating around the bush about it. (No pun intended.)
Congratulations corporate America. You got what you paid for.
- Following through on a pledge to change Clinton-era protections on 58.5 million acres of forest, the Bush administration on Thursday announced it will let governors petition for more or fewer restrictions on logging, mining and other development there.
The action, affecting forests mainly in the West, impacts the "roadless rule" that President Clinton had put in place little more than a week before leaving office in January 2001. Clinton’s regulation blocked road construction as a way to prevent logging, mining and other industry activities in the backcountry.
Under existing local forest management plans, some 34.3 million acres could be opened to road construction. That would be the first step in allowing logging, mining and other industry and wider recreational uses of the land.
Why doesn't he just get to the point and say, "Fuck the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge, fuck the national forests, and fuck all you environmentalists." It's what he really wants to say. I just wish he'd quit beating around the bush about it. (No pun intended.)
Congratulations corporate America. You got what you paid for.
