Hageman Letter to BLM Director Stone-Manning Demands Scrapping of Rock Springs RMP Proposal
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Harriet Hageman submitted a letter to Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Tracy Stone-Manning outlining the disastrous consequences of moving forward with the Rock Springs Resource Management Plan (RMP) proposal announced on August 22nd. This newly proposed RMP makes nearly one million acres of land categorized as “Areas of Critical Environmental Concern” off limits for energy production.
Congresswoman Hageman writes, “The people of Wyoming deserve better. We deserve a plan that respects our economic needs, our traditions, and the careful stewardship of our lands that we have practiced for generations. America as a whole deserves to benefit from the economic and national security contributions Wyoming makes through its extractive and livestock industries. Wyoming is the backbone of American energy production – contributing to greater energy independence from foreign bad actors. The BLM is enabling those bad actors to a greater extent than anyone by crushing America’s best energy producers through regulation….I strongly urge the BLM to scrap the current proposal and begin anew, this time in true collaboration with the people of Wyoming.”
In addition to blocking energy production, grazing will be banned from 1,545 acres within the RMP area – with no guarantee that additional grazing areas will not be blocked in the future. Ironically, while it seems the BLM ignored Wyomingites’ input on this proposal, they did listen to unreliable energy NGOs and have reduced right of way exclusions to allow for so-called renewable energy development.
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Contact: Chris Berardi, Sr. Advisor/Communications Director