http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/27/ken-salazar-bureau-of-land-management/
Former Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar pushed back against concerns that the federal government would open up Colorado's Great Sand Dunes National Park to oil and gas development Thursday.
Salazar ran the Department of the Interior (DOI) under former-President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. ...
"I oppose drilling within the Great Sand Dunes National Park. But if you're from the valley like I am, you know that to get to the place that is potentially going to be [developed] ... it's way on the other side of the mountains," Salazar said, describing the natural barriers between the park and the land parcels under review to be leased, according to Western Wire.
"And yet, somehow, if you look at the media reports, it's about drilling within the Great Sand Dunes National Park. It is not," Salazar continued.
Environmentalists are campaigning against the lease sale, claiming that although none of the parcels under review are in the national park, some areas are close enough to it that development would on them would harm the surrounding environment and views. ...
"I think [it] is really important for all of us to get to be literate about energy, so we understand energy issues, but also to know what the facts are, because sometimes people will misstate the facts in order to advance a particular agenda," Salazar said, according to Western Wire.
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