[Southack]

"California then enacted a law requiring that a metallic pit mine within one mile of an Indian sacred site be restored to its original landscape contour. Two days later, the California State Mining and Geology Board required mining companies to refill new open-pit metal mines and flatten mine waste piles back to nearly the natural landscape. Glamis Gold, a U.S. subsidiary of a Canadian firm, filed for compensation under NAFTA instead of in U.S. courts."

That's beautiful! If you want to smash California's anti-business laws, you incorporate some little shell firm in Canada, and *then* use that shell firm to control your California operation.

Then, any eco-law that gets in your way can lead you straight to a NAFTA pot-o-gold via successful arbitration!

[SierraWasp]

Well, thar ya go!!!

[Dog Gone]

I dunno. If I had spent $15 million on my property, only to have the state of California tell me that I can't use it because it's within a mile of "sacred ground", whatever that is, I'd use every tool in the book to get my money back.