Senator Tester Slips Bill Calling for Mandatory Logging of Public Lands into Omnibus Spending Bill

[alarimer]

And this guy is a Democrat? A DINO apparently or at least one whose hand is firmly in the pocket of timber companies.

If you liked what President Barack Obama and his Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar did in the Gulf of Mexico: Leasing 53 million acres in the Gulf during Obama’s first year in office (more than any of his predecessors) and approving 5,106 oil drilling wells there, including 591 deepwater drilling rigs; all with no prior environmental analyses, no public participation, no environmental safeguards, and no restrictions or regulations; thereby creating the worst environmental disaster in the United States of America’s history — then, you’re going to love what Obama and his Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack have planned for the last surviving ecosystem in the U.S. outside of Alaska.

U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT), strongly backed by Obama and Vilscak, has a bill that was written in secrecy by timber industry lawyers and timber industry lobbyists, a bill often referred to as the “Tester Wildlands Logging Bill,” that was unable to withstand scrutiny from the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee due to the financial and environmental costs of its Congressionally-mandated logging quotas, but has now somehow magically appeared on pages 893 to 942 of the 1,942-page $1.3 trillion Senate Omnibus Spending Bill.

http://www.alternet.org/environment/149223/senator_tester_slips_bill_calling_for_mandatory_logging_of_public_lands_into_omnibus_spending_bill



This thing is atrocious and looks like something that Bush and his cohorts in Congress would have done. Remind me again why we vote?

[tabatha]

1. Thank goodness the Omnibus was killed.

But the Tester slight of hand was an abomination.

[JohnWxy]

2. jesus. This guy should be given a 'talking to'.

(recommmended).

[4_TN_TITANS]

3. It sure didn't take long for Tester to find the Dark Side...

And to think we threw our support behind him to get him elected (as a Dem). These senators from small-time states just have too much power to poison the well.