anything even remotely like this should have to be VOTED on by both the house and senate
Posted on 10/08/2016 5:26:46 PM PDT by george76
A new report has government officials considering setting 10 million acres of across six states in the American west off limits to mining and development to protect the chicken-like Greater Sage Grouse, which is not an endangered species.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) report found that much of the Sage Grouse’s habitat sits on top of extremely valuable deposits of minerals including gold, copper, lithium, silver, uranium and many others. The USGS report means that the government’s most restrictive grouse protection plan could kill even more than 31,000 jobs and lead to more than $5.6 billion in reduced annual economic output
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Federal agencies have already frozen new mining claims across the 10 million acres while they do another environmental impact study.
The Sage Grouse is not listed as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has said the grouse doesn’t need federal protections under the Act for at least the next 4 years. Research from the Western Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies published in 2015 found that the species’ population had increased by 63 percent over the last two years to a total breeding population of 424,645.
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America has 83,000 fewer coal jobs and 400 coal mines than it did when Barack Obama was elected in 2008, showing that the president has followed through on his pledge to “bankrupt” the coal industry
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
anything even remotely like this should have to be VOTED on by both the house and senate
There is always some little critter that serves as a ruse to prevent development.
One big BBQ and the problem is solved.
There is no threat to the prairie grouse other than the Obama Administration. These are smart birds and know how to survive in harsh environments.
Dan Daggett, a former Earth First founder, in his book, Gardeners of Eden, he showed his enviro friends how you can make the land better using cattle grazing. they did not care. They said they would rather have it a waste land naturally than an Eden with them. It is not about the environment, with these folks, it is back door socialism.
That’s right; they need to reduce us to Red Chinese peasants. Did you ever wonder why Louis XVI and Nicholas II were executed? If so, do you still wonder?
Sorry, but the sage grouse did just fine for hundreds of thousands of years before humans were here in North America to “control fires”. Periodic prairie fires are part and parcel of the NATURAL habitat and natural cycles. Unnatural controlling of those natural fires interferes with the good they do for the environment and have ALWAYS done for the environment.
"Federal agencies have already frozen new mining claims across the 10 million acres while they do another environmental impact study."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Regarding constitutionally undefined federal agencies doing anything, please consider the following material from related threads.
To begin with, note that the Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide these clauses from Congress (sarc), to clarify that all federal legislative / regulatory powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in faceless, non-elected bureaucrats such as those running the EPA, IRS, FAA, EEOC, DOL and CRC as examples.
So Congress has a constitutional “monopoly” on federal legislative powers whether it want it or not. But by unconstitutionally front-ending itself with non-elected bureaucrats who are effectively running the country, Congress is wrongly protecting federal legislative powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of Sections 1-3 mentioned above.
In other words, corrupt lawmakers are wrongly letting constitutionally unauthorized federal officials get away with stealing and exercising legislative powers, a lot of these powers actually 10A-protected state powers which the feds have stolen from the states, so that federal bureaucrats can do Congress’s unconstitutional and unpopular legislative work for it.
By allowing this to happen, lawmakers are able to keep their voting records clean so that they can fool low-information patriots, patriots who don’t understand the fed’s constitutionally limited powers, into reelecting them imo.
Remember in November !
Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to not only support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will also put a stop to unconstitutonal federal taxes and unconstitutional interference in state affairs.
Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
not sure what post number 2 & 3 were cause they were censured, but I’m pretty sure I agree with them both.
About 2/3rds of the federal gub mint under this worthless anti American magic negro is absolutely worthless and should be eliminated and many within said federal gub mint ought be in prison ore hanged.
Well the range wasn’t mismanaged by the Feds then; which leads to runaway fires. Your assumption is based upon faulty information.
Here also. Coyotes are shoot on sight in my sphere. Ravens also exact a heavy toll on the eggs and chicks.
I agree that “mismanagement by the Feds” = suppression of NATURAL fires instead of letting them run their natural course which, in turn, prevents the buildup of flammable material.
“They won’t be satisfied until we, the rabble, are living in huts and searching for a dog to cook for dinner.”
Who’s going to pay their salaries?
Seems to work for Kim Jong-un.
Feds Thinking About Killing 31,000 Mining Jobs So They Can Sell the Resource Rich Land to Foreign Governments
There. Fixed it.
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