BP Connected to Wild Horse Roundups?

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The BLM's Calico Hills roundup last winter proved to be the bloodiest mustang operation in memory. The government captured 1,800 wild horses from half a million rugged and remote acres in northern Nevada. More than 100 horses died, some at the roundup site, most at the holding facility. In addition, dozens of pregnant mares aborted their young.

Wild horse advocates are used to seeing horses removed from the public range to make room for cattle, but they began to suspect another possible motive.

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Kathrens was perplexed why BLM would proceed with a roundup, against the advice of a federal judge, in the dead of winter, and when the BLM's own reports indicated there was little or no justification for the operation on the range itself. The horses and the land were in good shape.

She and others started focusing on plans for the Ruby Pipeline, a gigantic project to transport natural gas from Wyoming to Oregon while slicing through five separate herd areas. The 42 inch pipe would require a six foot trench nearly 700 miles long and a parallel, all-weather access road through land that has no roads.

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In April, suspicions peaked when the project coordinator for the pipeline told a reporter that "All hell would break loose" once the plan was approved, and that the pristine land along the route would "look like Hiroshima." Would that be a reason to thin out the horse herds? The BLM and El Paso both vigorously deny the Calico roundup was related in any way to the pipeline, but it is clear from documents that the mustangs were discussed by both at several points in the permitting process.

An alternative pipeline route was considered that would bypass the herd areas and go through land already disturbed, but it would have cost more. BLM approved the plan that would be cheaper for El Paso but more costly for the land.

"We are the Bureau of Land Management, not the Bureau of Wildlife, not the Bureau of Horses," said BLM district manager Gene Seidlitz.

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As it turns out, one of the largest users (of the pipeline) will be BP. A contract obtained by the website AboveTopSecret spells it out.

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The BLM may not be the Bureau of Wildlife nor the Bureau of Horses, but it is the Bureau of Land Management for US citizens. Not the Bureau of Land Management for corporate interests.

on this planet is going to be gone. Our caribou up here, the horses there ..... the wildlife in the Gulf. We really are an evil species.

I'm more concerned about wild horses, i.e. Przewalski's horses, than I am about a feral, invasive cohort of domesticated horses in the US.

At least horses aren't quite as bad as kudzu (which also looks quite charming). You can always eat kudzu without provoking an outcry.

need to explain the rest.

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