Bush Drilling Plan Brings Foes Together | LA Times

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Bush Drilling Plan Brings Foes Together
Ranchers, hunters and environmentalists decry bid to draw natural gas from New Mexico plain.

By Julie Cart, Times Staff Writer

OTERO MESA, N.M. — The governor of New Mexico — leading an unusual alliance of ranchers, environmentalists, hunters and property-rights activists — has launched an election-year challenge to the Bush administration's energy policies, vowing to block a plan to drill for gas on a vast expanse of desert grasslands here.

Gov. Bill Richardson's opposition represents the strongest signal to date that the Rocky Mountain West, long dependent on energy production, is having second thoughts about the administration's aggressive advocacy of oil and gas drilling.

"The federal government just got notice that, if they want to drill in Otero Mesa, this governor and this state are going to fight them," Richardson said at a rally in Albuquerque last week.

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1. Yup!

Call Sen. Pete Dominici and say you are against drilling on the Otero Mesa!
Call the WH too and tell them they are sleazeballs.

[dusty64]

2. Kick!

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[tabasco]

3. Another beautiful area that Bush will destroy.

Thanks to all those voters who did not vote for Gore.

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4. I am so proud of our Governor!

And it is an amazing alliance. Ranchers spoke about the poisoning of their cattle in the northern part of the state (San Juan) and how they hoped to prevent the same death & destruction in Otero Mesa.