William Henry Jackson, “Green River, Canyon of Desolation, Sumner’s Amphitheater,” (1871); The National Archives and Records Administration
Someone, probably a shut-in, on the editorial board of the Deseret News in Salt Lake City is upset that Utah can’t frack for gas the way North Dakota can because of the Obama administration’s canceling of some 77 oil and gas leases on federal lands with “the stroke of a pen,” etc., etc. Mitt Romney, the paper says, has a much better plan that would “pioneer” new policies at the local level on the eastern side of the state. Funny, because just a few weeks ago, the New York Times had a rather detailed account by Eric Lipton of how the regional office of the federal Bureau of Land Management conducts oversight of the energy industry in eastern Utah as if it were basically an ongoing giveaway to energy companies.
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