Proposal would withdraw Nevada’s Ruby
Mountains from energy development for
20 years
Las Vegas Sun,
by
Ilana Williams
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
1/1/2025 11:18:47 AM
The Department of the Interior is considering a 20-year withdrawal of the Ruby Mountains from future geothermal and oil and gas development, according to a news release.
The area in Elko County, referred to as Nevada’s Swiss Alps, is the ancestral homeland of the Te-Moak Tribe of the Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada. It provides recreational opportunities for hunters, anglers and birdwatchers, officials said.
The Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge includes a wetlands oasis for migratory waterfowl and fisheries that include trout and largemouth bass.
The U.S. Forest Service submitted a withdrawal petition with Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
pensom2 1/1/2025 11:50:59 AM (No. 1864704)
Look for Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to propose more restrictions on resource exploration and development on Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management public lands in the next three weeks. A DEI climate change fanatic, she is now obsessed with thwarting the incoming Trump administration's promise to provide cost-effective energy to the USA. "By law, the secretary of the interior can withdraw the land for a maximum of 20 years. Only Congress can legislate a permanent withdrawal." This is much too generous. Congress needs to rein in these bureaucratic powers, limiting them to the duration of the term of whatever POTUS under which the department may be serving. One interior secretary should not be able to ham-string successor interior secretaries from carrying out the agenda of whoever becomes the "current" president of the USA.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 1/1/2025 12:02:35 PM (No. 1864719)
Are you just as sick of "sacred" native lands as I am?
Yes - - I'll bet you are.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 1/1/2025 12:51:51 PM (No. 1864749)
Well, of course! If the insane climate change religious crazies cannot continue to remove lots and lots of productive energy producing lands from use, how can they possibly create REAL energy shortages, and force REAL energy prices up high enough that their fake "green energy" crap can be somewhere near economically viable?
The only way that 'green energy' has any chance is if, by law, huge swaths of REAL energy are forced off of the market. This is their long term game. NO real energy, oil, gas, nuclear, etc. is to be permitted, leaving us only with the sad, intermittent and very, very expensive solar and wind crap, fake, "green energy".
Fraud, corruption and greed - the actual basis for "green energy", which is neither green or actually very useful energy.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 1/1/2025 12:58:26 PM (No. 1864759)
Give the tribes a cut of the deals and I'll bet they suddenly find they're against the proposal.
Trump needs to declare a state of emergency for energy production too.
The electrical grid isn't anywhere near capable of handling the needs of today much less what they want from AI energy demands.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
sw penn 1/1/2025 1:13:01 PM (No. 1864769)
If there is one lesson to be learned from the past two, or three administrations
it is that anything that is done by the government today
can be undone by the government tomorrow...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 1/1/2025 1:15:59 PM (No. 1864771)
If it is done by one Interior Secretary, it can be undone by the next one. Only laws and treaties have any sort of 'permanency' and even they can be overturned, although with more difficulty.
Any of these Executive Branch actions is like writing on a whiteboard.....erase it and start over with a new President.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
privateer 1/1/2025 1:16:20 PM (No. 1864772)
How's that coal mining going in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
felixcat 1/1/2025 1:27:38 PM (No. 1864779)
Note to Illana Williams - the US Forest Service is NOT an agency under the control of the Department of Interior, but rather the Department of Agriculture. Not that the USDA under the Biden regime is any better than Interior, but get your facts correct.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Kate318 1/1/2025 2:51:29 PM (No. 1864850)
Native American tribes don’t need more, protected land. They need to be able to access the resources on the land they already occupy. The BIA and the BLM hold all the cards as far as development and refuse to allow the Indian populations to develop the wealth of resources those lands hold. This is the main source of poverty on reservations. It turns out the US government still is in complete control (except for the few casinos they allow) and continues its treacherous dealing with the Native American tribes.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MickTurn 1/2/2025 11:32:16 AM (No. 1865307)
Stealing Land for imaginary purposes...How Special!
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