[george76]

United Nations Agenda 21 in Utah.

We certainly hope we don’t have another Bill Clinton approach to creating a monument,” said Utah Governor Gary Herbert in a statement issued by his top aides.

President Clinton created the 1.9 million acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Kane and Garfield counties in 1996 by using his authority under the Antiquities Act of 1906. The Antiquities Act gives the president authority by executive order to restrict the use of public land owned by the federal government.

Jeremy McElhaney said President Clinton hurt Utah’s economy by preventing mining within the national monument.

“The Kaiparowits Plateau in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument has clean coal. Now it is gone forever. It would have provided 2,000 jobs for 200 years,” McElhaney said.

McElhaney said he felt the national monument proposal was a response to House Bill 148, “which demands the federal government make good on the promises made in the 1894 Enabling Act to extinguish title to federal lands in Utah.”

Nearly 70 percent of the land in Utah is owned by the federal government.

The bill was signed in March by the governor, giving the federal government until 2014 to relinquish control over nearly 47,000 square miles of land in Utah — national forests, federal range lands, national recreation areas and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

http://www.moabsunnews.com/news/article_2c6ad95e-38b5-11e2-8af3-001a4bcf6878.html

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“It’s pretty nuts,” Coronella said. “It’s full-on bullying.”

Alinskyites are always so "stuned" when their own tactics are used against them.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

After the government goes over its fiscal cliff, and after the TEAparty, or someone with a clue, attains power, they can close the EPA and other unConstitutional departments, sue the Sierra Club, and sell off all the improperly held “federal lands” to domestic developers.

This to help defray the federal debt.

Close, sue, sell.

[theBuckwheat]

So much in debt and still locking up valuable natural resources! Such dangerous waste.

While enclave Clause of the U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 8, clause 17 authorizes Congress to purchase, own and control land within the boundary of a state, the legislature of that State must give its permission. At present, this is routinely given. Maybe it is time for State legislates to stop granting blanket approval and require the federal government to apply for and justify every parcel, and to pay a hefty application fee, and endure a delay that is tuned to the delays the State experiences at the hands of federal bureaucracies for the federal permits that it must seek.

We must put Leviathan back in the cage before it is too late.

[Smokin' Joe]

The effort by SUWA has been going on since March 2011, when SUWA joined with the Sierra Club and many other groups asking the Secretary of the Interior to bar off-road vehicle use on 1,050 miles of ORV routes in “sensitive habitat, streams, wetlands, riparian areas, archaeological sites and other vulnerable areas”

Yet elsewhere, how many acres are being shaded out with solar panels?