Posted on 02/26/2011 8:49:52 PM PST by ASOC
Chickaloon Native Village, a federally-recognized Athabascan Indian Tribal government in Alaska, filed a communication to the United Nations Independent Expert on the human right to water and sanitation in conjunction with her first official visit to the United States, which began today.
Chickaloon Village’s submission asserts that the new open-pit coal strip mine in its traditional territory proposed by the Usibelli Corporation would contaminate local drinking water sources as well as rivers, streams and groundwater that support salmon, moose and other animals and plants vital for subsistence, religious and cultural practices. The US Federal Government and the State of Alaska have, to date, not responded to Chickaloon’s firmly-stated opposition to the mine.
Looks like it might be time to go to Alaska for a ousing game of “Cowboys and Chickaloonies”. SCOUTS OUT !!
That's what I was thinking too when I saw the headline. What, the EPA isn't anti-American enough for these guys?
IT is never, ever the least bit funny/witty/whatever to print something like that.
Dude, in case you missed the memo, these are Americans - they just happen to live in a little shit-hole village on the edge of a more populated area. They don't like the idea of a coal mine in their AO - and I'm fly with that.
That they went to he UN - instead of following a route within the US legal system has made some brand them as single dimension bigots - no argument from me.
But to even suggest that shooting these folks, burning down the village or any other sociopathic behavior (I assume you meant to be humorous) is totally unacceptable. Shameful really.
And, oddly, it seems Uncle Sugar ripped off a ton of the coal money to boot.
The Califlowers will soon run out of electricity - and watch everybody else not cry over their misery.
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