[Mb-civic] Once Gone, Gone Forever

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Once Gone, Gone Forever 
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October 27 2004

Secretary of the Interior Gale A. Norton insists the Bush administration is committed to protecting the nation's wild lands, but the words of a Bureau of Land Management worker in Price, Utah, tell the real story. "We can protect any landscape that no one wants to use for anything else," Tom Gnojek told The Times' Henry Weinstein. "If it's not wanted by the oil and gas industry or the ORV (off-road vehicle) industry, we can protect it." The administration is giving industry virtual carte blanche to look for oil and gas wherever it wants outside of existing parks and wilderness areas. 

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