Posted on 05/13/2021 12:05:29 PM PDT by SJackson
Edited on 05/13/2021 12:38:08 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration announced Tuesday it will consider a ban on new mining on large expanses of public lands in Western states to protect a struggling bird species, the greater sage grouse.
The Interior Department review comes in response to a federal court order and is expected to cover millions of acres of sage brush habitat considered crucial to the bird's long-term survival.
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Probably very little we could mine here that we can't buy from our enemies overseas. Friends too.
The libs. They protect grouses and mouses and never Americans from illegal louses.
It’s enough to make you get sowses.
Coyotes.
Where’s the Yogi BEAR part?
Sounds like Iowa is headed toward more bear diversity, without even using a diversity plan or a 6-figure salaried official!
“Trump administration ignored prior science on the issue, including a 2017 government study that concluded restrictions on new mining would avoid impacts to hundreds of sage grouse breeding areas.”
Oh brother.
Ban mining?
Where will all the rare earth minerals come from to build our solar panels and batteries?
Maybe Hunter Biden can convince the Chinese to help us?
Story and headline don’t match up.
Sorry, messed the thread up. This article text belongs to
Mining ban considered to protect bird species in US
The text for the bears in Iowa article is at DNR says black bear population likely to expand into Iowa
Thanks, see post 10. Asked the am to delete the thread, but I guess it works this way.
Lots more land without economic mineralization than with. The sage grouse can just go breed there.
Echoes of the Sagebrush Rebellion can again be heard...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagebrush_Rebellion#/media/File:US_federal_land.agencies.svg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagebrush_Rebellion
The feds control far, far too much land.
And there’s no shortage of Sage Grouse
This BS has been going on at least back to Clinton, and well before, I’m sure.
Yet the solar arrays fry thousands of birds of prey, they even have a name for it when one flies into the plasma cloud, “flamers”. And the Obama windmills swatch thousands from the air at near the speed of sound.
Too much competition for Xiden’s Chinese friends. Traitor B Clinton closed rare earth mine for his friends, so Traitor Joe is just following in well-trodden footsteps. We never recovered from that mining closure and won’t from this one either.
Where will all the rare earth minerals come from to build our solar panels and batteries?
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They already come from China.
They’re shutting us down. One step at a time.
Yup. It needs to be turned over to the states or sold to private owners.
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