Posted on 12/04/2009 3:56:03 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
US court blocks huge gold mine project in Nevada
Posted on December 3, 2009 at 6:31 PM
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday temporarily blocked construction of a massive gold mine project in northeast Nevada that critics say would harm the environment and ruin a mountain that several tribes consider sacred.
In a rare legal setback for the mining industry in the nation's largest gold-producing state, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals granted an injunction to force Barrick Gold Corp. to postpone digging a 2,000-foot deep open pit at the Cortez Hills mine. Nevada trails only China, South Africa and Australia in terms of worldwide gold production.
In reversing an earlier ruling, the judges in San Francisco said the U.S. Bureau of Land Management failed to adequately analyze the mine's potential to pollute the air with mercury emissions and dry up scarce water resources in Nevada's high desert. The project is located on Mount Tenabo, about 250 miles east of Reno.
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Ping!
Those greedy gold miners and oil drillers have to be kept in check.
/s/
IMHO
Another natural resource denied us by the Left. November can’t come fast enough.
Soaring gold prices are making low grade ore mines feasible. I wonder how sales of panning and sluicing equipment are doing?
“No mining, no drilling, no driving cars, no consumin’, just go live in caves you serfs”
“But Leaders, there aren’t enough caves for all of us.”
“Die then peasants, just die, but give us all your money and freedoms first.”
It makes one wonder if a little more prospecting might be happening this next summer. I've thought about it.
Look for Obama to take over gold mining soon under the auspices of governments prevalent knowledge of how to mine without polluting. It might ten thirty or forty years to get to that point but they'll do it better and safer.
Protecting those natural resources so that we have something to trade for the new global currency...selling our national sovereignty in exchange for global communism/socialism.
You took the words out of my mouth.
If they’d found oil there, you can bet we’d be drilling immediately, NOT!
Just read my tagline.
When will someone finally wise up and ask the tribes which mountain they DON'T consider sacred? That would be a lot easier than trying them each, one at a time. Natives are pretty much pantheists and consider everything in nature sacred. Why don't we all just go do the sweatlodge thing and quit trying to do industry, jobs, you know, civilized stuff? That way, we could all just collect our government pittances and live in equal misery, to the ripe old age of 37 -- just like the natives used to until the nature-dominating whites came along.
There are stories of metal detector types, finding gold in the dry river beds, by digging down a few feet.....
“a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals”
Need you say more...;-)
There’s your jobs right there. Too bad for the unemployed in Nevada.
Another bunch of anti human pig faced Nazi scum are saying they are protecting land when they want to destroy all humans.
Where in the Constitution does it say that this can be done??????? Is not there just fellow Nazi scum are doing their anti human things like no drilling for our oil. If one does not want to drill their energy should be taken away from them immediately.
I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic.
What do liberals and conservatives agree on, not mining for gold?
If the claim is that they are refusing to mine to protect the environment, that would be a lie.
They are refusing to mine for the same reason the government will often invest in gold...to protect the paper dollar. In other words, they are forcing us to use the unstable currency when people recognize that their assets and savings are at high-risk because of that instability and when they most want to trade that unstable currency for something they believe is more stable.
I can’t figure out why so many conservatives on FR dismiss gold investing “because you can’t eat it” or some such remark that doesn’t even merit a response. I’m not saying everyone should invest in it — to each his own. But I don’t quite understand why many conservatives on this particular forum seem to think it an absurd investment/store of value. And this attitude particularly puzzles me in light of the fiscal policy actions of the out of control US gubmint, which conservatives are generally quite aware of and opposed to.
Yipes !
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