“For years I have expressed significant concerns about offshore drilling in the Arctic. The federal administration should not enable new oil and gas drilling in these untouched areas that host such a fragile environment.” Jay Inslee, Governor, Washington State, March 31, 2015
“No future extraction [on public lands]. I agree with that.”
Hillary Clinton, Democratic Nominee for President,
Feb. 4, 2016
Who owns the West? Increasingly, it’s the US Federal Government, with the help of compliant state executives, and if you don’t mind, they’d prefer you got off their lawn.
Federal lands account for 69 percent of Alaska, 30 percent of Washington, 53 percent of Oregon and 45 percent of California. The Feds also have 19 percent of Hawaii, although that number might need recalculating, as we’ll discuss below. In the 13 Western states, Uncle Sam owns an average of 47 percent of the land, while controlling less than 5 percent of the land in thirty-seven East Coast and Midwest…MORE
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