What's natural about it
Brummett mulls the paradox of leasing out state wildlife refuges in the so-called Natural State for gas drilling.
People at Game and Fish say this gas activity won't bother the natural habitat. And they're the experts.
But I would just say this: If I'm in my natural habit, meaning deep in that chair with my feet slung over the arm and the TV remote perched on my chest, and if you come through this area with a bulldozer and some steel and a gas well, then, speaking personally, I'm going to be bothered.
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Wow! That's the first time I made it all the way through a Brummett column in a couple of years. New AGFC logo design (click my blue name.)
Posted by: Roderick A. Bryan![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/nav-commenters.gif)
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July 31, 2008 08:32 AM
I don't think it's a paradox. It's black/white to me. It's our 'undeveloped' land that was set aside for our use. It's one more example of government selling what's not theirs to sell. What's next our sidewalks/water sources/military/prisons/bridges/public hospitals...oh wait...those are already being sold out from under us.
God we need a Democrat in the White House...maybe Obama can, at least, slow down the outright selling of our public entities.
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July 31, 2008 09:36 AM
It is simple. Drilling for natural resources is a sloppy, noisy action that infringes upon all of nature. From the animals that are displaced from the drilling to the damned pollution that spurts out the back of my Jeep as I drive down the road. The smog from Coal Fired Power Plants, the lousy disposal of chemicals. We need to change, or we wont be here very much longer.
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July 31, 2008 10:06 AM