Obama administration uses Endangered Feces Act to thwart drilling in Colorado

Fuel Fix:

On Wednesday, the Obama administration declared that the Gunnison Sage-Grouse, a showy, chicken-sized bird that lives in Colorado and southeast Utah, was a “threatened”species, giving it greater protection against encroachment by oil and gas drilling into its habitat.

Colorado officials, like Gov. John Hickenlooper, expressed disappointment in the ruling, saying that the Interior Department discounted the efforts by volunteers and state workers to protect the bird.

Kathleen Sgamma, vice president of government affairs for the Western Energy Alliance, noted that the listing threatened continued oil and gas development in the region.
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This is another example of how the anti energy left uses environmental regulations to try to keep fossil fuels in the ground.  The law needs to be revised to make this impossible.  It is anti Darwinism at its worst.