Let me be clear, we welcome reasonable environmental planning to the table of planning the oil shale industry, but I think more emphasis going forward will be placed on American lives, American jobs and stopping our wars overseas for oil.
On the recordNovember 17, 2011
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Advocating for prioritizing human lives and jobs in resource extraction.
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