The OHV community is being hammered on a daily basis with
TMR-related closures, abuse of cost-recovery for permitted events,
eco-lawsuits, and the sage grouse (just to name a few).
Recently, HQ has been focusing some attention to the large
number of wind and solar energy projects that are being fast-tracked by the
Obama Administration and Department of Interior. The national media ran a story on March 17
about some ethically-challenged energy policy advisors at Interior and the
NextEra project.LA Times Article
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0317-interior-conflict-20120317,0,7046819.story
With even simple OHV projects (new well at Stonyford or the
Carnegie SVRA lands opened for public use) being held up for 4-12 years or more
due to the state and federal regulatory process and “environmental concerns”
pressed by anti-access groups, HQ believes there is a double standard being
practiced by some green advocates and their friends in high (or low) places.
Several weeks ago, HQ got a blind fax (from a land agency
employee who was fed up with the double-speak) regarding letters sent by
pro-access Senator Jeff Session asking for accountability by Interior on the
NextEra Project and a number of other energy efforts.
Senator Session’s Letters to Interior
It’s time that major energy projects on public lands get the
same level of environmental scrutiny as OHV projects that seek to install a new
well at a FS or BLM campground or build a dirt-bike trail.
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