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Montana gov blasts GM mine contract cancellation (Obama closes US mines in Montana)
Business Week ^ | 7/10/09 | Matt Brown

Posted on 07/10/2009 11:03:57 PM PDT by pissant

Gov. Brian Schweitzer is calling on the Obama administration to force General Motors to honor its contract with a Montana mining company instead of going overseas to buy the precious metals used to control vehicle pollution.

By failing to shield the platinum and palladium mines, the Democrat said Friday that the administration had shown a bias against his state -- at a time when other U.S. jobs were protected with a "buy American" clause in the $787 billion stimulus act. GM is shedding its contracts with Stillwater Mining Co.'s platinum and palladium mines as part of the automaker's emergence from bankruptcy protection.....

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Columbus-based Stillwater employs more than 1,300 people and runs the only mines in the United States producing the metals, about 90 miles southwest of Billings.

With platinum and palladium mined in just two other countries, Russia and South Africa, Schweitzer said GM's cancellation would put the U.S. at a strategic risk and hurt the mining industry.

A White House spokesman declined comment.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessweek.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; US: Montana
KEYWORDS: 10thamendment; agenda; bho44; democrats; economy; generalmotors; larrysinclairslover; mining; obama
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To: ecomcon
We may have saved our platinum, but will we still have a country?

Platinum and palladium mining are such a small niche, that protecting them won't save our domestic mining industry. There are plenty of other, more abundant materials that we should be mining to do that. Then the infrastructure would remain intact to mine the platinum/palladium when we need it.

61 posted on 07/11/2009 7:00:17 AM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Willie Green

The company should diversify and not have all its egss in one basket. Not good business sense.


62 posted on 07/11/2009 7:35:33 AM PDT by Achilles Heel
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To: pissant

I love Dems like Schwietzer. He appears at the DNC one day, then signs the Montana Gun Independence Law the next, then bashes Obama the next. These guys will be part of a future third party, along with the Blue Dogs (52 in the House).


63 posted on 07/11/2009 7:38:32 AM PDT by FreepShop1
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To: pissant

Count on this idiot, in virtually every circumstance, to do the exact opposite of what logically needs to be done.


64 posted on 07/11/2009 7:51:25 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: pissant

That contract belongs to Motors Liquidation Company now, the new General Motors Company is free from all previous contracts and old contracts will be handled on order of the trustee for MLC.


65 posted on 07/11/2009 7:54:45 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: FreepShop1

“I love Dems like Schwietzer. “

You love someone who got up in front of the world and propped up this train wreck of a president for his “energy policy” in front of the world? Get your head out of the sand.


66 posted on 07/11/2009 7:55:06 AM PDT by Minn. 4 Bush
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To: montanajoe

Exactly! Did any other posters actually read the article?

“Details of the case paint a complex picture: GM was effectively subsidizing production by Stillwater, often paying above market price for the metals. And since 2003, the mines have been majority-owned by a Russian company, Norilsk Nickel.”

The US (and the GOP) has asleep at the wheel for a while.


67 posted on 07/11/2009 8:35:55 AM PDT by Pudding Biafra (Because "Jello" was already taken.)
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To: Chet 99
"So how is voting for two Democrap senators and one Democrat governor working out for you, Montanans?

All those Californians moving into the state. They are fleeing CA and bringing the California virus with them, throughout the Rockies.

68 posted on 07/11/2009 8:46:08 AM PDT by cookcounty (He who controls the Language controls the Debate.)
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To: null and void
"With platinum and palladium mined in just two other countries, Russia and South Africa, Schweitzer said GM's cancellation would put the U.S. at a strategic risk and hurt the mining industry."

And for those worried about the environment and wanting to "think globally":

Which of the three US, South Africa, Russia, or the US mines with far greater sensitivity to the environment than the other two?????

69 posted on 07/11/2009 8:49:55 AM PDT by cookcounty (He who controls the Language controls the Debate.)
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To: pissant

From an administration and a political party that spent the last eight years crying about “sending jobs overseas.”


70 posted on 07/11/2009 8:52:27 AM PDT by denydenydeny ("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr House)
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To: I'm ALL Right!

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What are you talking about? I get a “?” in a box. Is there a link?


71 posted on 07/11/2009 9:04:19 AM PDT by Chgogal (American Mugabe, get your arse out of my bank, my car, my doctor's office & my elec. utility.)
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To: pissant
"...Schweitzer said GM's cancellation would put the U.S. at a strategic risk and hurt the mining industry."

But then again.....putting the US at a "strategic risk" is exactly what Obama and his string-handler's agenda is all about. These are just the first baby steps towards that destructive goal. Expect more.

72 posted on 07/11/2009 9:10:28 AM PDT by XenaLee
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To: pissant

South Africa...
There you go


73 posted on 07/11/2009 9:12:13 AM PDT by novemberslady (leap of faith...)
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To: Chet 99
So how is voting for two Democrap senators and one Democrat governor working out for you, Montanans?

It might as well be Big Sky on the Hudson.

74 posted on 07/11/2009 9:23:08 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Chet 99

Like the other states with Fly in Voters, my Florida elected 1 Dumacrat and 2 Rinos. Now with a Rino Senator stepping down and a chance to elect a conservative(Rubio)our brain dead voters will probably vote for Rino Crist.


75 posted on 07/11/2009 9:23:41 AM PDT by GOYAKLA
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To: novemberslady

You do realize that the mining company was essentially bought by the Russians in 2003?


76 posted on 07/11/2009 9:30:21 AM PDT by Pudding Biafra (Because "Jello" was already taken.)
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To: pissant
By failing to shield the platinum and palladium mines, the Democrat said Friday that the administration had shown a bias against his state -- at a time when other U.S. jobs were protected with a "buy American" clause in the $787 billion stimulus act.

Ha haaaaa!!! How's that hope and change working out for you, RAT!

Here's an excerpt from Montana's state-run website boasting about Schweitzer's position on Ubama's "working class families task force" or some such gobbledy-gook.

(HELENA) – Governor Brian Schweitzer is in Washington D.C. today to meet with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden about the White House Task Force on Middle Class Working Families.

Governor Schweitzer was asked to be a part of the Task Force announcement and discussion which will focus on raising the living standards of middle-class, working families in America.

77 posted on 07/11/2009 9:34:04 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Arizona Carolyn
"Schweitzer is a democrat.."

Not all Democrats are willing traitors to this country, just as not all Republicans are patriots. There are Democrats that are more "Republican" in ideology than some RINOs like McCain.

78 posted on 07/11/2009 9:46:47 AM PDT by Bokababe (Save Christian Kosovo! http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: max americana

We call Schweitzer “P.T. Barnum” because he puts on a good show, and he believes that there is a sucker born every minute.


79 posted on 07/11/2009 9:50:07 AM PDT by tuckrdout ("Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Minn. 4 Bush
You love someone who got up in front of the world and propped up this train wreck of a president for his “energy policy” in front of the world? Get your head out of the sand.

No. I love them because they cause constant trouble for their master.

80 posted on 07/11/2009 9:51:10 AM PDT by FreepShop1
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