Salazar/BLM Ping
People better pay attention to what the states are doing on their own as well. Michigan is taking another 2000 acres almost within sight of my back door. Not to mention 50 acres here, another 100 there, and 10 or 25 more here and there. As it is Michigan is fast approaching the 50% state and federal owned range.
They’re using federal matching funds so its a sure bet some strings are attached.
Hatch is a RINO, but good for him in uncovering this.
Democrats can never be trusted at any time, in any place. To them, lying is as easy as breathing.
Now that the Rat's end-run around Congress has been uncovered, let's hope that we can finally put this issue to bed.
Thanks for the ping!
Wait until they have more flexibility - in 100 days ?
UN 21 also grabs water rights from farmers, cities, and
bttt
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“We believe that the National Environmental Policy Act does not require these steps and that taking them would set a dangerous precedent for American exports,” the senators wrote Salazar and Army Secretary John McHugh.
They noted that coal producers could export their product through Canada, but protested against ceding the jobs that the Pacific Northwest ports would bring.
In its request, the EPA cited coal dust and diesel pollution as “primary concerns,” in addition to wildlife, aquatic resources, and cultural resources.
“While these concerns are not insignificant, they are routinely addressed under existing environmental review processes,” Barrasso and Enzi wrote. “In no way do any of these concerns warrant significantly expanding the scope of or delaying the environmental review process for new port facilities. To the contrary, expanding the scope of or delaying the environmental review process for new port facilities would create uncertainty for ongoing and future exports of coal from the Powder River Basin as well as Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kentucky, and West Virginia.”
What is pathetic is the attempt by these two western Senators to push these coal ports on rural areas of WA and Oregon, where the people do not want a coal port and all the environmental degradation that would accompany a coal port. These idiots are trying to paint the opposition to the Powder River Basin Coal ports as a global warming battle. It has little to do with global warming. It has to do with the local impact of coal trains and huge coal ports that foul the water, the air and degrade the quality of life, mostly in rural areas. Would you want a coal port in your back yard? No, of course not. The problem is that there is a declining market for this sub bituminous coal anyway. China has warned that China will not be interested in buying the coal in another couple of years because they are producing their own coal while at the same time reducing their dependency on coal (huge LNG port being built) The Powder River Basin Coal is an Obama crony capitalist project. While Obama wages a war against coal on the East Coast, on private lands, he is facilitating the mining of coal on public leased lands that is mostly owned by Indian tribes in the Powder River Basin. Recently the Crowe made a deal with a large mining company to directly partner in the Powder River Basin, avoiding the federal leasing. There was another Indian tribe in WA that wanted to construct a coal port in Tacoma, WA, but the city nixed it. Enter Goldman Sachs and Warren Buffet, and the idea of building the port in rural Whatcom County, where the growth management act denies any local governing authority over development and crony capitalism reigns supreme. What the producers of this coal and their political supporters want to do is to turn our rural coastline into a major coal train route, that will destroy our health and well being as well as our property values. It will clog and pollute our waterways and basically destroy any chance for any real commercial development that would provide more jobs and some local benefit. There is nothing in the export of coal to benefit WA and Oregon. We don't want it in our back yards. The only people who support the coal are those who will not be impacted by it and are fooled into thinking that it will provide jobs. The fight over these terminals has become so divisive that some of the local Republicans who support the terminal have been working WITH the local lefty regulators and storm water advisory boards, AGAINST the private property owners to benefit the developers. Gateways are what the Agenda 21 people call their multi-modal transportation corridors, ports and hubs that connect urban ports around the world for the purpose of moving people and cargo through rural areas, limiting human incursion into rural areas. The coal port that they want to build in Whatcom County is called the GATEWAY Pacific Terminal. Patty Murray wrote a bill to fund Gateways all around the country that was included in the transportation bill that was signed this summer. Goldman Sach is a partner in several of these projects. Goldman Sachs does not need our tax dollars and neither does Warren Buffet, but they are getting them.