The image that Zinke wants average folks to have of him is of the Tall Cowboy riding his horse across the plains, championing the great outdoors.
The facts of his actions are the true Zinke.......
From the Washington Post:
"Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is moving rapidly to promote American production of coal, oil and gas..."
"On July 6, for example, as he outlined a new secretarial order aimed at speeding the oil and gas permitting process within the department’s Bureau of Land Management..."
"The same day Zinke moved to expedite permits, Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced it would lower the rate companies must pay the government for shallow-water offshore drilling projects from a planned 18.75 percent to 12.5 percent. Months earlier, Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue suspended a new accounting system that would have compelled coal firms and other companies to pay millions of dollars in additional royalties on minerals on federal land."
“singular focus” on energy development “is starting to shift how the department operates,” particularly regarding the collection of royalties.
"Under Zinke, BLM has already scheduled lease sales in at least two areas in Wyoming and Utah identified as priority habitat for the birds. (Grouse) The agency is also moving ahead with a lease sale near Utah’s Dinosaur National Monument, though the National Park Service had in the past objected the project."
"Zinke lifted a year-long moratorium the department had imposed on federal coal leasing"
Stand up for YOUR Public Lands.
Write you Congressional representatives.
Cheers,
Mark
The facts of his actions are the true Zinke.......
From the Washington Post:
"Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is moving rapidly to promote American production of coal, oil and gas..."
"On July 6, for example, as he outlined a new secretarial order aimed at speeding the oil and gas permitting process within the department’s Bureau of Land Management..."
"The same day Zinke moved to expedite permits, Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced it would lower the rate companies must pay the government for shallow-water offshore drilling projects from a planned 18.75 percent to 12.5 percent. Months earlier, Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue suspended a new accounting system that would have compelled coal firms and other companies to pay millions of dollars in additional royalties on minerals on federal land."
“singular focus” on energy development “is starting to shift how the department operates,” particularly regarding the collection of royalties.
"Under Zinke, BLM has already scheduled lease sales in at least two areas in Wyoming and Utah identified as priority habitat for the birds. (Grouse) The agency is also moving ahead with a lease sale near Utah’s Dinosaur National Monument, though the National Park Service had in the past objected the project."
"Zinke lifted a year-long moratorium the department had imposed on federal coal leasing"
Stand up for YOUR Public Lands.
Write you Congressional representatives.
Cheers,
Mark
