Posted on 10/08/2016 5:26:46 PM PDT by george76
A new report has government officials considering setting 10 million acres of across six states in the American west off limits to mining and development to protect the chicken-like Greater Sage Grouse, which is not an endangered species.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) report found that much of the Sage Grouse’s habitat sits on top of extremely valuable deposits of minerals including gold, copper, lithium, silver, uranium and many others. The USGS report means that the government’s most restrictive grouse protection plan could kill even more than 31,000 jobs and lead to more than $5.6 billion in reduced annual economic output
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Federal agencies have already frozen new mining claims across the 10 million acres while they do another environmental impact study.
The Sage Grouse is not listed as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has said the grouse doesn’t need federal protections under the Act for at least the next 4 years. Research from the Western Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies published in 2015 found that the species’ population had increased by 63 percent over the last two years to a total breeding population of 424,645.
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America has 83,000 fewer coal jobs and 400 coal mines than it did when Barack Obama was elected in 2008, showing that the president has followed through on his pledge to “bankrupt” the coal industry
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The intention of this would not be to protect the grouse, the intention is to do further damage to America, to the American economy and to Americans in general. Have no doubt of that.
It is for actions like this that The Greens are often admired, but seldom respected. They live in a parallel universe, not this one.
They won’t be satisfied until we, the rabble, are living in huts and searching for a dog to cook for dinner.
Feds Thinking About Killing 31,000 Mining Jobs To Protect A Chicken the Erf From Man-Made Global WarmingTM
They have truly lost their minds.
Where’s Colonel Sanders when you need him.
Liberals won’t protect unborn babies but they will protect some bird.
Jesus come quickly!
If it was a connected and powerful crony democrat wanting the land and wealth, the chicken would be erased from history altogether without a mention.
Her Henious said she intends to put miners out of work. (for their own safety and well being of course). I would love to be a fly on the wall of a UMW meeting hall when the union thugs tell there rank and file to vote for this bi*tch.
Surely the chicken can be caught and moved to another habitat that is conducive to it’s survival. This doesn’t have to be a save the chicken or our mining situation. We are smarter and more able than that. They just want to stifle us.
No doubt whatsoever. The elites must cripple the middle class and teach them submission to their betters. This isn’t a free trade vs China thread, so sorry for this, but can anyone doubt that our own government is a bigger threat to freedom and prosperity than China is?
We will immolate ourselves long before China is able to do it.
would not simply doing underground shaft mining rather than open pit mining leave most of the habitat undisturbed?
Their UN Agenda 21 scheme is to destroy all productive middle class jobs and turn us into Venezuela.. Fishing, farming, ranching, logging, manufacturing ... not just mining.
The real issue is not about a bird.
Underground shaft mining has above ground issues like tailing, etc.
Open pit mining is often more productive , efficient .. They often are nicely reclaimed as grass lands or such.
They want us to live in caves.
This government is destroying us.
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