Comments about ‘Red-rock drilling? Dispute grows’

Yeah! We need the oil! And as a side benefit to the state, they can make money by making everyone buy new license plates that include a drilling platform in the background!

DRILL BABY DRILL!

Not sure I understand all the facts and ramifications but it would be in out best interest to protect our natural landscapes. I do not want to see drilling wells from any vantage point at Utah's most iconic setting. It is unreasonable and irresponsible to disturb anything within proximity.

As an advocate of Nine Mile Canyon, I sincerely hope the swearing in of Barack Obama includes a pink-slip for state director Selma Sierra.

If the drilling, roads, and pipelines can be done such that they are not visible from the Parks, then go for it. But, at some point, the wells aren't worth the cost. It isn't as if there is a lot of Utah that they haven't drilled already. And Range Creek is just calling to them...

The same people opposing the sale of this land are the same ones who complained about the price of gas...Idiot Environmentalists!!! Gas doesn't come from a pump, it comes from the ground.

Oh, by the way...milk comes from a cow.

This article is misleading in that Mr. Foy makes it sound like there will be an oil rig right next to the Delicate Arch. In reality, the park covers hundreds of square miles and and any drilling would not be seen or heard by most visitors. It also provides energy resources and jobs for a region that desparately needs it.

It's time for the public to get their facts straight and for the media to quit leaning so far left.

EnviroExtremists are holding this nation's energy supply hostage. No one is planning on oil pumps in the middle of Zion's, but we have designated millions of acres of land as "national parks" singly to prevent energy exploration. We need to stop listening to the extremist on both sides, and start drilling where it makes sense. This article, particularly the headline, is a dishonest exaggeration.

Yes, Selma may get a pink slip. In fact with the swearing in of Barack Obama, there could potentially be pink slips for most of America. The problem here is not where the oil and gas companies drill, the problem is, no matter where they find energy, there is someone there to oppose it. It is no wonder that our economy is in shambles. Lets look at the Nine Mile Canyon. If you are truely concerned about Nine Mile Canyon, why don't you propose a better route, or for that matter an alternative route? I'll answer that. It has nothing to do with Nine Mile Canyon. It's the unbelievable efforts to stop drilling at all cost, even the cost of your integrity. I'll be watching for a proposal to offer a new route on top of the Tavaputs Plateau so that our natural resources can be utilized. Of course I dont expect to see an alternative plan, because it has nothing to do with protecting an area, but simply crippling an industry and crippling the USA.
If Selma Sierra gets a pink slip I hope they'll at least consider Sarah Palin.

Dollar to doughnuts, Selma Sierra gets a job with a energy company after the new year.I do not think bush is done yet, hang on to your hats!

TO Hello???? I know where oil comes from and I certainly know where we shouldn't be drilling--such as national parks and wilderness lands. I don't complain about the price of gas, because I either ride my bike 25 miles one way to work or I take public transportation rather than use a Ford F350 for commuting.

Excuse me; did someone say we need to end our dependance on FOREIGN OIL? How do we do that? When the parks were created, they already cover hundreds of thousands of acres that simply lock up any natural resource with in their boundry. Now that doesn't seem to be enough, now its; "Go to the outside boarder of the National Park and lock up everything you can see".
When the USA is owned by a foreign country, then the SUWA and it's friends will simply say "Oh sorry for the miscalculation" and walk away. If we need the energy, lets allow them to go get it. In fact to develop alternative energy is a great idea, lets provide a huge tax incentive to the oil and gas companies to help develope alternative energy instead of the open wide, were going to shove the Obama down your throat to your colon.

Oil and gas development is compatible with other land uses. There are oil and gas wells within a few miles of a number of our National Parks and the coexistence is acceptable to all, except for the most radical environmental extremeists. I work in the natural gas industry in Colorado and New Mexico where there are gas wells within a few miles of Mesaverde National Park. Most park visitors never notice the well heads. The drilling rigs are only up for a few weeks while a well is being drilled and then all there is to see is a small amount of surface equipment and a road going to the well head. Arches NP is in the middle of the Paradox Basin which is one of the most oil rich geologic provinces in North America. If we want to be more energy independent then we have to drill where the oil and natural gas can be found. I live in Fort Worth Texas where the natural gas industry is developing a rich gas field in the middle of the greater DFW metro area. Wells are being drilled near airports, ball parks, subdivisions, and schools. We can coexist with wells.

Hey James in St. George, the park boundary is very, very close to Delicate Arch. The article is completely accurate. It isn't an exaggeration.

We "EnviroExtremists" are the ones that were cheering the high gas prices in hopes that it would help the USA would final free itself from those foreign interests, and the oil companies, that REALLY are holding this nation hostage. The USA is addicted and needs an intervention to break the addiction. Drilling everywhere is the moral equivalent of pushing booze onto an alcoholic.

During the past 2 years I have spent time (10 straight days in Utah's "Book Cliffs" area) in the oil/gas rich States of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah finding all agencies working together in harmony with subsequent increases in wildlife, watering holes, and improved land management. Afer drilling the small amount of briefly disturbed land (usually 1/2 football field size) receives a tremendous makeover with great success! Please give me a call & I will give add'l details of my positive findings.