Rep. Cyrus Western (R-Big Horn) brought the bill on behalf of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming.
Ffs
Murdering the climate was really their first priority all along, wasn't it?
I genuinely believe that they're too proudly ignorant to get it. To them, climate change is something they're worried about in Ivory tower universities and on the political left. It's a proud ignorance that says "you smart people aren't going to tell US what to do."
Reminder that one of their (former) politicians thought an out-of-season snowball disproved global warming and nobody along the way told him how stupid that was...which is my proof that these politicians don't even have anyone in their orbit that understands how stupid that was.
Anyway, I still think making obscene amounts of money is their first priority and they either can't or won't understand the damage they do.
I think they get it, they just don't think they'll ever experience consequences. They can always move somewhere comparatively insulated from harm or don't see a point in worrying about anything that happens outside of their own lifetimes or are techno optimists and assume we'll crack fusion or invent efficient carbon scrubbers
Ahh, you know...you're not wrong; and probably the balanced answer is that the corporations themselves have a huge number of employees with beliefs along a wide spectrum, and there's definitely some sociopaths at the top like you describe. Another portion of their employees justify it for a paycheck, some that want to get out of the business, some people that are probably true believers in their companies, some in denial etc. I can't claim to accurately guess at what the breakdown would be though.
Even though Colorado has extensive drilling that has ruined large swaths of the state, there's such a big difference in how our nature looks versus Wyoming's. They trash the whole state to such a disgusting degree that I need a large trashbag every time I go hiking there. This is par for the course.
They trash the whole state to such a disgusting degree that I need a large trashbag every time I go hiking there.
And yet you still come; why is that? Stay in Colorado.
Happily. You and your sister-wife can keep all the trash to yourselves. It's your culture.
SMH. Typical Coloradon, never misses an opportunity to trash talk Wyoming but also never misses an opportunity to drive up here to hike, fish, camp, and bike.
You are small in both mind and spirit.
I don't drive up there to do any of those. My ex did because she figured it would be more wild, but it's just disgusting and full of people like you.
You are small in both mind and spirit.
Imagine getting this mad over someone criticizing your trashy state.
THIS SENTENCE, is corruption in plain sight to such an absurd degree that we are expected to be nonchalant in our acceptance of it. I'm sure a lot of people (present company excluded) drove right on by this sentence without stopping to marvel at how at ease big oil and gas are with expecting laws to favor them:
“So rather than wait for that to happen, we thought, ‘Well, let’s step in now and let’s put in place a bill that acts as a deterrent to doing that,” Petroleum Association of Wyoming President Pete Obermueller told WyoFile.
This is awful. They changed the game just so environmentalists [all of us really] can’t win
The change, made under emergency rulemaking in June...
really makes clear what the state's priorities are
I pointed it out separately, but this sentence makes it even more clear.
‘Well, let’s step in now and let’s put in place a bill that acts as a deterrent to doing that,” Petroleum Association of Wyoming President Pete Obermueller told WyoFile.
Hey Wyoming congressman/congresswoman, it's your oil and gas friends and we are going to need you to write some legislation for us here... Oh, Congress is out of session? You'll need to go ahead and reconvene then, sorry.
