BLM Approves Ruby Pipeline for BP Gas Wild Horses to Pay the Price

The Desert Independent

By ROBERT WINKLER
The Desert Independent

July 14, 2010

WASHINGTON, DC – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has just approved the Ruby Pipeline through a destructive route across the West. This is the same pipeline that will carry British Petroleum (BP) gas (Click HERE to see attached documentation). BP is the same company that brought us the planet’s greatest environmental disaster in the Gulf is now part of the BLM’s Wild Horse disaster, the killing of wild horses in their ill timed round ups.

Secretary Ken Salazar of the BLM authorized this destructive route which shows they are hell-bent on destroying the last big areas of the West where wild horse herds roam and wildlife currently thrives just to make things cheaper for the BP and the rest of the gas industry. A route through disturbed lands would have avoided all of these conflicts with public lands and wild herds. We have just seen the results of industry cost-cutting with energy projects in the Gulf.

The route chosen and approved by BLM for the Ruby Pipeline is the least expensive and most damaging route. Instead of choosing to build on already disturbed lands along highways and power lines, the BLM has allowed the path of most destruction through pristine wilderness. These public lands are not only home to herds of wild horses but sensitive species such as sage grouse and pygmy rabbits.

The American public is now footing the bill for the massive removals of wild horses, some of whom stood in the way of the Ruby Pipeline. The American public is being robbed of the serenity and beauty of our vast Western landscapes.

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