Fox News Report: Opening Federal Lands
Senior VP of Policy Dan Kish speaks with Special Report about opening vast federal lands to energy development which could produce $14.4 trillion in GDP over the next 37 years.
Beyond The Congressional Budget Office
While headlines have reported a boom in US oil and gas production, that boom has been related exclusively to exploration and development on private and state lands and waters. Even that limited expansion has had profound effects. Opening up Federal resources — in addition to private and state resources — to exploration and development can accelerate all of those trends.
But recent administrations have yet to follow through on promises to allow access to Federal resources, instead proposing to levy increased taxes on oil and gas production.
Federal Assets Above and Below Ground
The federal government owns a great deal of valuable assets both above and below ground. The above ground assets include buildings, lands, roads, railroad infrastructure, levees, dams, and hydroelectric generating facilities, to name just a few, many of which are underutilized.
Below the ground, the federal government owns the rights to mineral and energy leases, from which they receive royalties, rents, and bonus payments.. Read More
Special Report: Opening Federal Lands
Beyond The Congressional Budget Office
Federal Assets on Public Lands.
Utah City Councilman Joins Fight to Defend State Sovereignty
01/26/13
Local elected leaders are catching the nullification fever and are joining with state lawmakers to force the federal beast back into its constitutional cage. One of these sovereignty-minded local leaders is Highland, Utah, city councilman Tim Irwin .
A Federal Fault Line on Public Lands
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL 12/21/12
In the early 1980s, John Kenneth Galbraith commented, "Where socialized ownership of land is concerned, only the USSR and China can claim company with the United States."
Since that time, China and the former USSR (Russia) have significantly liberalized private control of property to unleash economic activity within their borders. Read More
The Only Solution Big Enough
Idaho County Free Press 12/04/12
Falling may feel like flying.... for a while. Massive national debts and creating trillions of dollars out of thin air (quantitative easing) may feel like income. History teaches unmistakably that the stopping point for the latter is abrupt and painful like the former.
Ignoring this painful truth is as futile as ignoring the effects of gravity. Doing nothing, or doing as little as may be politically expedient, leads to a very hard landing for Idaho, Idaho's children and Idaho's economy. We have the only solution big enough to avoid such a hard landing for our state, our children, and our nation, if Idaho, and Idaho's leaders, will unleash our abundant resources and channel our native competitiveness. READ MORE
Utah should secure the rights and benefits of its public lands
Deseret News: 12/23/12
Utah is regularly acknowledged as one of the best managed states and more financially responsible than the federal government that borrows 40 cents for every dollar it spends. However, nearly 40 cents of every dollar Utah spends comes from this fiscally unsustainable federal government. Ignoring this truth may be as painful as ignoring the law of gravity — and the stopping point is likely to be as abrupt and painful as it is for those who think falling is flying.
How can Utah lessen its reliance on the federal government while meeting its ever-increasing spending needs for schools, roads and services? Is there a solution big enough to close a $2 billion annual education-funding gap and to put our state on the path to economic self-reliance? Read More
Farmers support state control of public lands
Capitol Press 12/17/12
Farmers are some of the biggest supporters of a movement to compel the federal government to return control of public lands to western states, according to the group leading the effort.
"Farmers and ranchers are some of the best allies we have when we explain very clearly to them what the purposes of the (movement) are," said American Lands Council President Ken Ivory.
Ivory is a representative in the Utah House of Representatives, which passed a bill last session that demands public lands controlled by the federal government be transferred to state ownership. Read More
City Councilman Joins Fight
Federal Fault Line on Public Lands
The Only Solution Big Enough
Utah Should Secure Rights & Benefits to Public Lands
Farmers support state control of public lands
Bedke backs Idaho management of federal lands
01/12/13
House Speaker Scott Bedke is supporting his predecessor’s interest in exploring an Idaho version of the Utah Transfer of Public Lands Act, which seeks to shift management of millions of acres of federal lands to the states.
Unlocking Idaho’s Abundance: Jim Chmelik makes case for public land divestiture. 01/01/13
In a recent opinion editorial in the Idaho County Free Press, Jim Chmelik, makes the strong case that Idaho needs to take control of its public lands. This call echoes the concern we raised in our inaugural post, the Post Scarcity Mindset, that federal management of hundreds of thousands of square miles of land leads to contrived scarcity of resources. Read More
Just call him a modern day Utah Nostradamus. 02/04/13
And like the 14th Century French apothecary and seer, state Rep. Ken Ivory’s fiscal predictions may be seen by some as catastrophic.
Actually, Ivory, R-West Jordan, is being praised by his GOP House colleagues as one reason Utah still has a AAA bond rating and is more prepared than most other states in facing the federal “fiscal cliff,” and the loss of tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in Washington, D.C., financial help. Read more
Death Of A Forest:
Why We Should Care
Time to take our forest back before there are no trees, animals, habitat, or watershed left and before billions more pounds of pollutants are spewed into the air instead of harvesting this renewable resources to produce jobs and offset our massive deficit and national debt.
Obama's Federal Land Grab
American Spectator: 08/17/12
Enviros used to oppose any use of America’s federal lands. Now they want it to be the source of “renewable energy.” Welcome to America’s two economies.
How The Smokey Bear Effect Led To Raging Wildfires
NRP: 08/23/12
Scars from thousands of sections show how often fires burned in the Southwest. It was every five or 10 years, mostly — small fires that consumed grass and shrubs and small seedlings, but left the big Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir just fine. This was the norm.
Then something happened.
Idaho Statesman
Post Scarcity Alliance
Utah Policy
Death of a Forest
Obama's Federal Land Grab
How The Smokey Bear Effect Led To Raging Wildfires
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