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http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/list-nwo.htm World Heritage List
Do you know which sites we gave up? Much of the western land is controlled by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and is now a Wilderness Area.
No, not for the wilderness of it but for the minerals.
I have old State of Arizona Mineral maps that show where the mineral deposits have been found, the areas are now closed and are under the wilderness plan. We import our minerals from overseas and an amazing amount comes from Russia.
I am out of date on this info, but it started about 1970 and continues today, as it has only been about 5 years since they took the Black Mountains into the Wilderness plan.
I will bring info over in a minute. This post about the minerals and Wilderness Plan caught my eye.
This is similar to stories I've heard about Alaska.
The Alaskan pipeline was built in 1977 and runs from Prudhoe Bay to the southern shores of Alaska in Valdez.
Developing Alaskan oil would make the United States completely independent of oil imports.
In 1980, Lindsey Williams wrote a book, The Energy Non-Crisis, based upon his eye witness accounts during the construction of the Trans-Alaska pipeline. As a chaplain assigned to executive status and the advisory board of Atlantic Richfield & Co. (ARCO), he was privy to detailed information.
"All of our energy problems could have been solved in the '70s with the huge discovery of oil under Gull Island, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska," Williams said. "There is more pure grade oil there than in all of Sau di Arabia. Gull Island contains as much oil and natural gas as Americans could use in 200 years."
"Everything you hear on the evening news and out of Washington is garbage," said Jim Lawler, an oil production manager with ARCO. "Eight wells have already been drilled in the areas environmentalists are claiming we must not go in. We have already been in and out. There was no damage done. All we need to do is start production."
But the mainstream media is mind-molding public opinion by repeatedly showing running caribou, touting environmentalists' claims that the caribou and other endangered species and habitats would be destroyed.
Sounds like a similar situation with the minerals.
About Oil and Minerals.
25 years ago, I was still in the "gotta know everything about mining" mode.
One of the things that I found at the court house here, was that one of the big oil companies had hundreds of oil claims recorded and they were all in the (then) proposed Wilderness Study Area.
I questioned the BLM geologist about it and learned, that it was OK, as the big oil companies could do the needed assessment work, by mapping it from airplanes and he told me how to spot the airplanes that would have the equipment on board to record what was in the ground.
We have found many test holes in the desert and at Wellton, they drilled a hole for oil about 3,000' deep, out in the desert.
A friend who was from Oklahoma and had worked the oil wells there, hung out over at the test hole. He said one night the earth signs were showing that it was right for oil.
Ira went back the next day, to find the well casing had been capped and the rig and all signs of humans were GONE.
This less than 10 miles from my place.
I heard it explained on a radio program that the liberals were correct in saying that we had only 6 months of oil in Alaska.
MAYBE THIS WOULD BE TRUE IF WE DIDN'T CUT THE AMOUNT WE ARE USING, AND DID NOT GET A DROP FROM ELSEWHERE.
Alaska was one of the first area's to be shut down, we were still fighting in Arizona, when reports started coming in that the area was under fences and you would be arrested or shot if you went into them.
Colorado is the same.
The whole thing is wrong and not for a good reason.
Solar energy works, I never understand why we are not using it.
Thank you for posting the articles, it is so frustrating to not be able to do so.
Ruth