Klinton wanted to repay his Chinese Communist supporters by removing good Utah coal fields from consideration as a viable energy source. We then began buying megatons of coal from China.
The state should be moving on taking that land now.
I wonder if the Chinese still own the Worthen Bank in Little Rock. They bought that so they could be close to their investments: Billy Goat and Hitlery.
as I recall, the coal interests being protected were Indonesian, not Chinese. The market being protected was China. The Indonesian money provider to Clinton was selling coal to China.
I can’t remember the name of the Indonesian but some here surely can
BTW.....
The land Clinton took out of play is called The Grand Staircase Escalante. It was established as a park on lands then and still administered by the Bureau of Land Management. BLM set up a new National Park Service like organization to administer the park.
That is the same BLM that was faced down in Nevada in Dirty Harry’s nefarious attempt at a land grab.
For a fantastically beautiful drive over several days, visit the Grand Staircase Escalante and the adjacent National Parks.