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The New Yorker is having a bad week. Here is an attack on Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke that would be hard to surpass in ignorance. Zealotry does not equal expertise.
“Ryan Zinke’s Great American Fire Sale” AKA The New Yorker’s total ignorance of the oil & gas leasing.
Guest commentary by David Middleton Ignorance unbound… Ryan Zinke’s Great American Fire Sale By Carolyn Kormann April 14, 2018 Not long ago, the Bureau of Land Management, an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior, began distributing “vision cards” to its employees. The front of each card features the B.L.M. logo (a river winding into…
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. . . In what sort of Bizarro World is it wrong to require employees to adhere to policy directives from management or to reassign or fire lower level managers who are unlikely to implement those directives ? This buffoon seems to be horrified by the fact that B.L.M. employees are being directed to adhere to policy directives of the Trump administration… Policy directives that are actually consistent with the purpose of the agency (as opposed to those of the Obama maladministration. . .
Why would the author of The New Yorker article be so utterly ignorant of the oil & gas industry and the purpose of the B.L.M.?
“Ryan Zinke’s Great American Fire Sale” AKA The New Yorker’s total ignorance of the oil & gas leasing.
Guest commentary by David Middleton Ignorance unbound… Ryan Zinke’s Great American Fire Sale By Carolyn Kormann April 14, 2018 Not long ago, the Bureau of Land Management, an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior, began distributing “vision cards” to its employees. The front of each card features the B.L.M. logo (a river winding into…
Continue reading →
. . . In what sort of Bizarro World is it wrong to require employees to adhere to policy directives from management or to reassign or fire lower level managers who are unlikely to implement those directives ? This buffoon seems to be horrified by the fact that B.L.M. employees are being directed to adhere to policy directives of the Trump administration… Policy directives that are actually consistent with the purpose of the agency (as opposed to those of the Obama maladministration. . .
Why would the author of The New Yorker article be so utterly ignorant of the oil & gas industry and the purpose of the B.L.M.?
Carolyn Kormann spent several months reporting in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia as a 2008 Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism. She was also the recipient of a fellowship from New York University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, where she completed a master’s degree in journalism with a focus on Latin America and climate change. She is now a reporter for the East Hampton Press in New York. Her work has recently appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review.
Yale Environment 360
Now, it makes perfect sense why she would consider the legal director of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance an authority on the oil & gas business.Yale Environment 360
