USA, Nevada:

Formal Protest Filed With BLM Against Nevada Fracking Proposal (News Release)

National conservation organization calls for investment in geothermal energy and other clean renewables instead

The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a formal administrative protest on an upcoming oil and gas lease sale in Nevada that, according to the Bureau of Land Management, could open up more than 174,000 acres of public lands to fracking. The sale, slated for July 17, would offer up 102 areas near the towns of Tonopah and Austin in north-central Nevada.

The Center is calling on the BLM to cancel the Nevada lease sales as part of a nationwide shift toward safer energy sources.

“While water is scarce, sunshine is abundant in Nevada,” said Rob Mrowka, a senior scientist with the Center. “We should be ramping up investment in clean and well-planned geothermal, distributed solar and wind facilities here, because our citizens, environment and natural heritage deserve the best.”

The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 775,000 members and on-line activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.

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