After a discussion of how the Feds use falsified data in order to implement policy goals:

Now comes news federal officials are nearing a decision to add more than 700 new species to the endangered list between now and 2018.

Inclusion of two of the species involved — the Sage Grouse and Prairie Chicken, both found predominantly in western states, including Texas and the Dakotas — could halt the U.S. energy boom in its tracks.

Why? Because putting the birds on the endangered species list empowers federal bureaucrats to limit use of millions of acres of privately owned lands, thus effectively taking them out of energy exploration and development.

Whether adding them to the endangered species list is the proper course of action is disputed in part because federal officials have yet to make public all of the underlying justifications on which they are basing their actions.

The situation provides yet another illustration of the maxim that the public loses when government makes policy in private. To read the full ESA working group report, go here. [links]

http://washingtonexaminer.com/how-the-sa...article/2545436

Just look at California's water problems--all because the gov. claimed the delta smelt was endangered so the water was diverted all for a two inch minnow