Dear gawd.
Keeping up with Clinton corruption is too time consuming for others of us....its just too long a list.
Have to look at the maps. I’m sure some tweaks might be made to satisfy people but some of these are really great areas to have preserved, to visit. If reduced, what is the result? It won’t get sold off, transferred to the state, etc. Trump’s already said something to that effect during the election. I suspect that no matter what he does or does not do, it will upset conservatives. His kids like the outdoors, hunting, etc., maybe open these up? Loosen rules for them?
Huge Libturd federal land grabs, only partially reversed. Zinke should have recommended eliminating these unnecessary “national monuments.”
I recall the same corrupt motive. That said, there is some pretty country in that part of Utah. The other two are pretty country but not really spectacular and impeding logging had much to do with the Oregon park.
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"Zinke traveled to five states during the process, visiting Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante and Cascade-Siskiyou plus Katahdin Woods and Waters in Maine; Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks in New Mexico; and Gold Butte and Basin and Range in Nevada. "
Gold Butte is the grazing area at the center of the cattle round-up and armed standoff in April 2014 involving Bundy and federal land management agents.
As an aside, I personally think we should charge Europeans and other foreign visitors 3-4 times as much as we charge American citizens to visit Yosemite and other national parks. Call it a tax, for social programs. The Europeans will have a hard time arguing about that. No American passport, cough up the money to visit our wilderness.
“You’re fired.”
Seriously, is this what interior secretaries do?
Clinton set up a folding table on the edge of the Grand Canyon, fooling the gullible because they believed he was protecting the Grand Canyon, when in reality he was creating a new National Monument, the Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument in Utah.
Beneath that new National Monument lies one of the world’s premier deposits of low sulphur coal, now inaccessible.
The Lippo / Rialdy bunch in Indonesia owns another source of sulphur coal in that country, which became much more valuable with Utah’s coal shut down.
The Lippo group gave campaign contributions to Clinton, and this was their reward. Corruption!
The area that Bears Ears occupies is very small. Yet, Obama set aside 1.3+ million acres for that Monument. The ranchers and the farmers would love that land to be freed up to be used for foodstuffs for the American people. But the ads here in the west, slam the ‘corporations’ and the ‘oil men’ for trying to take back the land. They are labeled GREEDY for wanting the land to be used to make life better for Americans. I smell Soros money here.
The Utah Coal Lockup: A trillion dollar Lippo payoff?
When the President signed the Executive Order designating 1.7 million acres of land in southwest Utah as the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, his action placed the area off limits to mineral extraction and development.
The New York Times reported that the monument encloses the largest coal field in the nation, the Kaiparowitz Plateau, which contains at least 7 billion tons of coal worth over $1 TRILLION.
Kentucky-based company Andalux Resources, which holds leases on 3,400 acres in the area, was planning to open a huge operation (underground, not strip mining) that would have generated 1,000 jobs, $1 million in annual revenue for Kane County, and at least $10 million a year in state and federal taxes, according to the New York Times. Folks living in the area wore black arm bands the day o the signing - but Clinton didn’t see them. He chose to make his announcement in a neighboring state. WHY?
Why did he do it? Why lock up $1 trillion worth of coal?...
...In the weeks prior to the past election, revelations surfaced almost daily regarding donations from foreign sources to the Democratic Party and Clinton’s past campaigns. At the center of the controversy was another set of people to whom Clinton owes a few favors: the Lippo Group, a powerful $5 billion Indonesian conglomerate, founded and owned by the Riady family who, it turned out, had raised and funneled millions of dollars into campaign coffers....
http://www.laissez-fairerepublic.com/indocoal.htm
Wait until they recommend Anwar be open to drilling.
I remember and American Spectator magazine was virtually the only reportorial outfit that investigated why Clinton made this surprise declaration of a huge piece of Utah for a national monument when no one had heard of it, much less petitioned for its designation.
Likewise, folks had been bewildered as to why the Ryadi family from Indonesia made large campaign donations to Clinton until some reporter dug up the info on the mineral deposits belonging to Ryadi whose value was greatly enhanced when the Grand Staircase deposits were put off limits.
The Clintons always go back to their old tricks, just use slicker tools to hide the corruption. Can you say, Uranium and Clinton speeches in one sentence boys and girls? I knew that you could