technolust

Want.



Overkill? Perhaps. It got a good review on Tom's Hardware Guide though, and if I'm going to replace my trusty old Kodak DC210 I might as well get something I'll be happy with for a good while, no?

"You can't make new wilderness."

Oil and Gas Hold the Reins in the Wild West
Land-Use Decisions Largely Favor Energy Industry

The Jack Morrow Hills draft plan, for example, calls for opening about 63 percent of the land for gas and oil leases. In New Mexico's Otero Mesa region, a new management plan would allow drilling in about 94 percent of land that is home to herds of pronghorn antelopes, prairie dogs and the nation's largest stands of Chihuahuan desert grasses.

In central Utah's Price district, a newly released draft plan would lift restrictions on 77 percent of the district's 2.5 million acres, including more than a million acres that had been proposed for federal wilderness protection in the 1990s.
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Energy industry officials counter that their desire to drill is in keeping with the part of the law that requires "multiple use" of BLM lands. Fuller, of the petroleum trade association, says environmentalists fight over every acre, scenic or not. "We're not talking about parks," he said.

"We're not talking about parks". Except, of course, when they are.