Democratic Massachusetts Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren unveiled her plan for the 640 million acres controlled by the federal government.
Warren’s “plan for public lands,” released Monday, includes banning coal, natural gas, and oil production, and making all national parks free to visit. Warren’s goal is to tackle climate change while spurring economic development on federal lands.
“It is wrong to prioritize corporate profits over the health and safety of our local communities,” Warren wrote in a Medium post announcing her plan. Warren says she wants to “make public lands part of the climate solution – not the problem.”
“That’s why on my first day as president, I will sign an executive order that says no more drilling — a total moratorium on all new fossil fuel leases, including for drilling offshore and on public lands,” she wrote.
That’s a complete one-eighty from the Trump administration’s agenda of promoting natural resource development. Warren also set a goal of getting 10 percent of U.S. electricity generation from renewable energy on public lands and waters.
“My administration will make it a priority to expedite leases and incentivize development in existing designated areas, and share royalties from renewable generation with states and local communities to help promote economic development and reduce local dependence on fossil fuel revenues,” Warren wrote.
Conservatives were critical of Warren’s plan to halt all new fossil fuel production, saying it would endanger hundreds of thousands of jobs.
“Declaring war on western states where energy production makes up a lot of the economy is probably not a great idea when you represent a state that has to import natural gas from Russia to get through the winter,” said Dan Kish, a senior distinguished fellow at the Institute for Energy Research.
Fossil fuel production on federal lands and waters supports 676,000 jobs and $134 billion in economic output, according to Interior Department figures. Some Native American tribes also subsist off revenues from coal gas and oil production.
“‘Banned in Boston’ is going to take on a whole new meaning to the men and women who keep the lights on in this country,” Kish told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an email.
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As unstable and unreasonible as most all liberal democrats Lizard Warren as unstable as they get
The “American Indian” has spoken . This impostor is so cracked .
Pocahontas can say anything she wants, it won’t affect her chances.
“It is wrong to prioritize corporate profits over the health and safety of our local communities,” unless we (Progressives) pick the corporations and share in the profits.
“My administration will make it a priority to expedite leases and incentivize development in existing designated areas, and share royalties from renewable generation with states and local communities to help promote economic development and reduce local dependence on fossil fuel revenues,” Warren wrote.
My administration will “incentivize development” = subsidize and pick winners … remember Solyndra? Solyndra, the government handpicked Silicon Valley startup that collapsed, leaving taxpayers liable for $535 million in federal guarantees. Progressive LIES.
“share royalties from renewable generation” = the only sharing will be in the “swamp” at taxpayers’ expense. Remember Obama Joking about His 800 Billion Dollar “Shovel Ready Jobs” that actually weren’t “Shovel Ready”? Where did that money go? Another LIE.
“Ban Drilling, Make Parks Free”. Everything FREE FREE FREE… in government designated areas where economic development will depend upon reduced dependence on fossil fuel.
There is EVIL in the Progressive agenda. Pure Evil.
Lizard Warren so dumb just your typical liberal who sits down on a bench that has just been painted and thinks the word is dying and only her and fellow Dummiecrats can save it all