From the article:
“In Montana’s Finley Basin there are known tungsten deposits. An Australian company wanted to bring revenue and jobs to the state by developing the resource. While the property was successfully drilled and recognized by Union Carbide in the seventies, it is now about 200 yards inside a roadless study area. The Forest Service was willing to offer a conditional drilling permit. Among the conditions were these requirements:
The drill sites must be cleared using hand tools,
The drilling equipment and fuel must be transported to the site by a team of pack mules,
The mules must be fed certified weed-free hay, and
Drill site and trail reclamation must be done using hand tools.
The company gave up.
How can America remain competitive in a global marketplace when we are required to use pick axes and mules? How does this help America’s heavy equipment manufacturers like Caterpillar?
No wonder we are in trouble.
We need these resources. They are salable both in the US and in a global market. The question is will we produce our assets—creating revenues, jobs, and new wealth? Or, will we allow countries, such as China, to have a monopoly and control the price?”
Leftist lunacy.
GMTA
This stuff, including the EPA lunacy, is being driven by squirrels that have college degrees, but failed critical thinking and have never needed to use common sense. With the nobama POTUS, these wildeyed wackos see no one is there to slow them down, so Balls to the Wall.
600 ft? Drill laterally!
A few years back here in Colorado they restored a famous cabin which is now in designated Wilderness area. They did all the work with hand tools. Had to call in specialists in hand tools to do the work and packed everything in on Mules. Its easy to do projects like this when you are spending other peoples money.
What? Hand tools? OK. How do you steer that equipment? With your hands. Isn’t that dozer then a hand tool? You have to have a bridle to steer a mule. Those damn high-tech mules!
These people should be taken out and shot. It's a war on All of Us.