Posted on 05/09/2011 6:19:27 AM PDT by Gondring
But when Johnson returned last year to the dig, called the Kirshner site, he was stunned.
"There is a drill rig and catchment basin sitting on half the village," said Johnson, who earned a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh and served as senior prehistoric archaeologist for Michael Baker Jr. Engineering Inc. "You have something there - which is better than you get with [excavations of] other villages - that has been destroyed by drilling."
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The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, the state agency that oversees historic sites, including areas of archaeological value, has no power to compel investigation or preservation and no money to conduct field investigations that state law requires it to pay for.
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"A bulldozer can destroy 9,000 years of history in 15 minutes," Kotz said.
A construction site must be 10 acres or larger before the state History Code, or Title 37, takes effect. Smaller sites are exempt and are subject to no state oversight. Drill pads for Marcellus Shale sites are often less than 10 acres.
But even for the larger sites, legislation passed in 1995 requires the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, rather than the company or permit applicant, to pay for archaeological surveys or fieldwork, under a 120-day deadline.
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Look....the indians lost. They destroyed plenty of their rival indian towns. These archaelogists and museums are infringing on the rights of the owners.....because that’s how they get their grant money. If you’ve every gone on any of these digs, you learn how petty they are.
The greenies become desperate when cracks appear in their plan to choke energy availability and force themselves into more of the decisions about how individuals and companies consume energy. Boo hoo.
NO history WON we need the natural Gas!
It boils down to this... who owns the land and mineral rights to it... how much are they getting paid for the exploitation of said mineral/gas rights and how much the grave robbers were paying the land owner for the rights to study a long dead people. In the end MONEY TALKS and BS walks.
Cuba's Hunt For Oil Raises Questions For U.S.
Cuba to lease oil well near Keys
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Well, they didn’t get there by walking.
The bodies were then disfigured and thrown into a ditch by the attackers, to be found later by archaeologists.
These are things that were done by by everyone everywhere, of course. Just mean that they were no different.
Back in 1985 while digging trenches for an RV development in North Myrtle Beach, SC, my men came across thousands of pieces of clay pots that dated back about 2500 years, according to some experts in Indian artifacts that saw the pieces. Needless to say, the work did not slow down for any archaeologist to investigate.
I didn’t vote for the SOB and Im doing my level best to get him out in 2012.... so what are you doing? I mean other than trolling....
The farmer in the story is paying out of his own pocket to lease lands to protect them. Should he have to do that to protect a Common Resource?
The Commonwealth allows leasing of State Lands. If you lease a room in a State building, are you allowed to freely trash the place and leave? No.
The conservative position on this is that nobody should infringe on things that aren’t their own—they should not be doing damage other than extracting the minerals, if they have the mineral rights or access rights.
There’s not enough money for enforcement, but if an area doesn’t have enough police to protect an area, it doesn’t mean that looting is suddenly okay. Plus, the responsibility for study shouldn’t be shouldered by the taxpayer—it should be required of those who wish to exploit the taxpayers’ resources.
US Field Production of Crude Oil--ONSHORE (in thousands of barrels)
(Red: George Bush; Blue: Barack Obama)
He's really pushing hard for domestic drilling, despite the rhetoric...he wants us to have to bow to the Middle East once we've used up our domestic supplies. He wants to harm America, I'm now convinced.
That increased production today is due to increased exploration and investment in places like the Bakken years ago.
Yes, isn’t it funny how BHO isn’t blocking that (it’s also due to fracking). Not that offshore production is anything close to onshore, but he’s definitely allowing us to use up our onshore, easy to get reserves, rather than letting us get the more distal ones first.
It’s a simple matter of economics. Can the university offer to the landowner compensation that is competitive with the “mineral rights” and development fees offered by the gas exploration companies? Thought not.
Winners win, losers bitch.
Sorry, missed your post. I said much the same thing, but you said it better.
That reminds of something I found interesting a little while back.
A hill south of the original city limits of Rome is a man-made mound consisting of broken amphorae (clay containers) of non-recyclable olive oil mostly imported from Spain.
Ah..... the glory that was Rome.
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