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
didnt I read that Utah is kicking federal ownership of their lands out in 2014 and has served notice to the Feds?
“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.”
Not gone forever. The Chinese will have no problem mining the area for coal when they assume ownership.
“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.”
Not gone forever. The Chinese will have no problem mining the area for coal when they assume ownership.
All western states should demand all USFS and BLM lands not already National Parks or Monuments be turned over to them for management and reasonable development where appropriate.
The states can manage those public lands far better for actual use by the public and for development of natural resources.
What is the justification for enlarging Canyonlands? That park is quite big enough, IIRC.
By an act of Congress for which the government had not the Constitutional authority.
Thanks for the ping!
Not just Utah, George76. No. Calif. and So. Oregon are still targets for more ‘national monuments’.
One of these days we’ll turn around and notice we don’t own ANY of the land any more.