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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Big Green's 'sue-and-settle' strategy draws pushback from states, Congress

By Ron Arnold | APRIL 1, 2014

Scott Pruitt is Oklahoma's attorney general and he's fed up with Big Green's outrageously destructive sue-and-settle attacks using endangered species as a weapon to obliterate America's burgeoning oil and gas production.  Pruitt was so fed up that on March 17 he and a coalition of energy groups filed a pioneering lawsuit – The State of Oklahoma et al. v. U.S. Department of the Interior – for collusion in violating federal law.

“Sue and settle” is the polite way to say that federal agency greenies invite old friends in Big Green groups to sue the agency so they can jointly select a species in, for example, oil and gas country, and go to court to “force” it to be listed as “endangered” or “threatened” so its range can be declared untouchable “critical habitat,” which stops production there.

In time of war that would be called sabotage. In time of Obama it’s called business as usual......To Read More......
 
My Take - Well, all I can say - It's about time! This really irks me though. It's clear the real reason behind these parties finally developing a backbone is .....money!  Big money all around!  And I don’t have one tiny problem with that at all.  The states, the oil companies and local governments will benefit enormously if they take a stand to stop this corruption. 
But this has been going on forever.  Just because it’s finally been exposed it was obvious to those of us involved in their industry affairs what they’ve been doing.   Why didn't they step in when private property owners were destroyed financially by these out of control activist bureaucrats? Why didn't they notice the Constitution was being violated - seriously violated before? Why?
I guess later is better than never, but I would like to know if we're going to see more push back from someone representing the small land owners who have been devastated by all of this.    it’s evidence such as this that clearly demonstrates the 16th and 17th amendments to the Constitution should be repealed.
 

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