Hunters, Anglers Blast Energy Bill

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WASHINGTON, DC, January 29, 2004 (ENS) - A group of hunters and anglers from four Rocky Mountain states descended on Washington, D.C., is concerned about the energy bill. The oil and gas provisions in the bill threaten prime fish and wildlife habitat on public lands in the Rocky Mountain West, the hunters and anglers said.

"I consider myself conservative, but am worried about and opposed to the Bush administration's invasion of our last remaining roadless lands," said Stoney Burk, a Montana attorney, businessman, avid hunter and angler. "These remaining wild lands provide some of the last tracts of uninterrupted wildlife corridors, habitat and renewable wildlife populations. We need an energy policy with more emphasis on clean, non- extractive, renewable energy."

The energy bill contains some $500 million in tax subsidies to oil and gas companies along with provisions to roll back environmental oversight of oil and gas development on public lands.

More than 60 percent of the nation's future natural gas reserves lie beneath public lands in the Rocky Mountains and Alaska and in offshore waters managed by the federal government. The press briefing was arranged by the conservation group Trout Unlimited, which released a new report detailing the potential effects of energy development in the region on fish and wildlife, and on fishing and hunting opportunities."

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[el_gato]

1. I will never understand how these people could have been so gullible

Maybe people are finally starting to learn they have to look
behind the feel good rhetoric.

I hope it's not too late.

[krkaufman]

2. Music to my ears

Granted, I hate to hear about the damage this Admin is doing to our country; but I *do* enjoy it when the pain is visited upon the ROG minions.