[dalereed]

Screw the salmon, raise them in a damn tank if you want them!

Mine where the minerals are, drill where the oil is, and cut down the trees where the forests are, not where the enviros say you can!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

There is a double standard for mining in America that came about courtesy of our most worthless president Jimmah Cahtah.

In 1978, a broad new federal surface mining and reclamation law was put on the books mandating repair of surface mined coal lands.

Most coal states had their own top soil reclaim standards but these were superseded by a new agency in the Department of the Interior.

Hard rock mining was specifically exempted.