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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Carragher who wrote (259648)	5/30/2002 6:01:35 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

CAN THEY EVER STOP LYING TO US? PHONY ANNOUNCEMENTS IN FLORIDA Hi John, Re: Do think the timing looks questionable. Not just the timing. The whole press release is propaganda, a lie. Karen Hughes and her ilk took two separate issues, one involving a settled issue at the Deming Dome in Pensacola, and another completely unsettled issue north of the Everglades that still needs Congressional approval and combined the two to create the misleading headline. As with everything to do with the Arbusto gang, the devil is in the details: Here's some detail on the part of the deal that is unfunded, the Big Cypress payola parcel. wilderness.org Collier Resources operates 10 wells in the preserve, which currently produce 100,000 gallons of oil a day from beneath the preserve. These fields are located on Raccoon Point, at the end of 11-Mile Road off U.S. 41 which produces 1,800 barrels a day of low grade oil from six wells, as well as Bear Island, six miles north of Interstate 75 in the preserve's northeast corner which produces 700 barrels a day from four wells. A pipeline sends the oil to a truck-loading terminal at the Miccosukee Indian Reservation. Trucks take it to Port Everglades, from which it is barged to Gulf Coast refineries. Collier wants to test for oil using explosives at 24 additional sites and drill and exploratory well. "We think it's outrageous and awful," said Jonathan Ullman, the Sierra Club's Everglades representative. "This is one of the few places in South Florida where wildlife can prosper. To do something that would so obviously harm wildlife in that area is against Everglades restoration and against what we think Floridians want." A project of this magnitude, and specifically one that requires building eight miles of road and drilling 14,700 holes in the ground with high velocity seismic explosives, is destructive to the environment and should require the highest degree of environmental review (a full Environmental Impact Statement), before any decision is final. Moreover, the Administration should make the acquisition of these oil and gas mineral interests one of its top land acquisition priorities, thereby ensuring the protection of the Preserve for generations to come. The Bush Administration started talking to Collier several months ago about acquiring the company's mineral rights in Big Cypress either through purchase or a land swap. This wouldn't be the first time Collier and the federal government have arranged a trade: in 1996, the government gave Collier urban development rights in downtown Phoenix in exchange for 108,000 acres to expand Big Cypress preserve. PHOENIX??

To: John Carragher who wrote (259648)	5/30/2002 6:01:36 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769670

CAN THEY EVER STOP LYING TO US? PHONY ANNOUNCEMENTS IN FLORIDA Hi John, Re: Do think the timing looks questionable. Not just the timing. The whole press release is propaganda, a lie. Karen Hughes and her ilk took two separate issues, one involving a settled issue at the Deming Dome in Pensacola, and another completely unsettled issue north of the Everglades that still needs Congressional approval and combined the two to create the misleading headline. As with everything to do with the Arbusto gang, the devil is in the details: Here's some detail on the part of the deal that is unfunded, the Big Cypress payola parcel. wilderness.org Collier Resources operates 10 wells in the preserve, which currently produce 100,000 gallons of oil a day from beneath the preserve. These fields are located on Raccoon Point, at the end of 11-Mile Road off U.S. 41 which produces 1,800 barrels a day of low grade oil from six wells, as well as Bear Island, six miles north of Interstate 75 in the preserve's northeast corner which produces 700 barrels a day from four wells. A pipeline sends the oil to a truck-loading terminal at the Miccosukee Indian Reservation. Trucks take it to Port Everglades, from which it is barged to Gulf Coast refineries. Collier wants to test for oil using explosives at 24 additional sites and drill and exploratory well. "We think it's outrageous and awful," said Jonathan Ullman, the Sierra Club's Everglades representative. "This is one of the few places in South Florida where wildlife can prosper. To do something that would so obviously harm wildlife in that area is against Everglades restoration and against what we think Floridians want." A project of this magnitude, and specifically one that requires building eight miles of road and drilling 14,700 holes in the ground with high velocity seismic explosives, is destructive to the environment and should require the highest degree of environmental review (a full Environmental Impact Statement), before any decision is final. Moreover, the Administration should make the acquisition of these oil and gas mineral interests one of its top land acquisition priorities, thereby ensuring the protection of the Preserve for generations to come. The Bush Administration started talking to Collier several months ago about acquiring the company's mineral rights in Big Cypress either through purchase or a land swap. This wouldn't be the first time Collier and the federal government have arranged a trade: in 1996, the government gave Collier urban development rights in downtown Phoenix in exchange for 108,000 acres to expand Big Cypress preserve. PHOENIX??