Bush's Latest Decision - Put The Grand Canyon In Jeopardy!!!

[Bobbieo]

"For the last eight years, the Bush Administration has done everything in its power to reward its friends in industry who seek to exploit our public lands for mineral wealth, timber, etc. but this goes beyond the pale. Instead of giving Congress time to consider how to protect the crown jewel of our National Park system, the Grand Canyon, from the impacts of dangerous and potentially life-threatening uranium mining, the Department is choosing instead to rush this regulation through, giving the public almost no time to comment.


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And, he still has more than two months to complete his vendetta against America!!!

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1. I can't believe it. Oh wait, I can.

[cui bono]

2. Action is needed on this: The notice tomorrow (10/10) will give the public only 15 days to comment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 9, 2008
Tucson, AZ - Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced it will rescind a regulation that allows two congressional committees to withdraw public lands from mining and other extractive activities in emergencies.

The BLM will publish a notice tomorrow in the Federal Register to rescind the rule (43 C.F.R. 2310.5) that allows the House Natural Resources Committee and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to notify the Secretary to withdraw certain lands in emergencies in order to give Congress the opportunity to determine whether permanent protection for the lands is warranted.

The notice tomorrow will give the public only 15 days to comment and provides no environmental analysis of the impacts of the proposed action."It is clear that this last-minute move by the Bush Administration, put out right before a three-day weekend when Congress is not in session, is designed to undermine our effort to protect the Grand Canyon from uranium mining and contamination," stated Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva, Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.

PUBLIC COMMENTS
Anyone wishing to comment on the proposed rule change MUST do so on or before October 25th.

Send To:
Director (630)
Bureau of Land Management
1620 L St. N.W. Room 401
Washington, D.C. 20036
Attention: RIN 1004-AE05

[NNadir]

3. If Americans gave a rat's ass about the Grand Canyon, the Glen Canyon dam, the Kayenta

coal mines, the Kayenta coal fired power plants would have never existed.

[Bobbieo]

4. Nadir - Honestly, I am not against nuclear power or nuclear anything - it is the GD corporations

who use unsafe mining practices and when the price of uranium goes down they abandon the mines and the radioactive waste. That is what I am against!!!!

Yes, coal fired power plants are something else - I witnessed the destruction of the atmosphere in Bejing prior to the Olympics. I suppose by now, it is back at the same level. I believe the pollution drifting east from China has a serious effect on the Global Warming on the West Coast of Turtle Island - the North American Continent.

[codjh9]

5. How about giving a rat's ass about anything? People often answer on polls that they 'care' about

forests, pollution, wildlife, global warming, oceans/fishing, etc etc etc, but then they go vote for Republican presidents, which since 1980 have been hugely anti-environment. It drives me f-ing insane! And they don't believe it when you try to tell them that, either - I've tried with a few relatives. They have this stupid simplistic view that either I'm 'imagining' or 'exaggerating' things, or that good ol' people like Bush wouldn't REALLY do those things now, would he?

[Bobbieo]

6. I do give a rat's ass about all the things you mentioned. Read my column and you will find out

that I really care about people and the environment, etc.

I have never voted for a Republican in my life - Oh, I take that back. I voted - once - for Barry Goldwater the first time he ran for Congress - back in the late fifties or early 60s.

[codjh9]

7. Wait-wait- I wasn't talking about YOU; I was talking about the general public! n/t

[hatrack]

8. Don't forget the Iron Rule of American environmentalism!

Americans will do whatever it takes to protect the environment, provided that:
1. It doesn't cost any money.
2. It doesn't inconvenience them in any way whatsoever.

But other than those two exceptions, we're down with environmental protection!

:evilgrin:

[codjh9]

10. Yep - that's the sad truth. Especially #2.

[bluesmail]

9. I expect more of this twelfth hour crap. Yes Crap.

Is nothing sacred? No.

[Bobbieo]

11. Bush will keep pushing for his corporate buddies until the very end.

He has been letting his agencies do the dirty work - mostly Energy and Interior. The Western Shoshone are pretty much up on all of this under the table stuff and I will pass on what they send to me.

[Brush Fire]

12. The junta is sucking us dry and taking everything it can take.

Then it will leave us with insurmountable problems, which they will find a way to make money on.

[dmr]

13. KICK - this makes me so angry.

I'll write and make calls.

Thanks for posting this, I almost missed it.

[tom_paine]

14. KICK (too late to rec)

:grr: :grr: :argh:

The price we have paid for not taking to the streets in 2000 is literally incalculable.

America and the world have been severely damaged in every possible way, possibly beyond repair.

Bushler may not be the Antichrist, but his scorecard of destruction and pain for billions of people now unquestionably (in EVERY CATEGORY except TOTAL DEAD, which he may still vastly increase before he's done) is almost identical to what one would expect from the AntiChrist.

I mean, Bushler is THIS CLOSE (just one nuking of Iran away) from being unquestionably annointed by billions of peoples the world over as the AntiChrist (and annointed, as he has been, by the Bushies of the world as "A Good Christian Man").

Just one nuking of Iran by the Amerikan or Israeli Bushies will do it.

He will then have fufilled the first parts of Biblical Prophercy of Revelations far too close for my comfort...and I'm not even a believer. (though I have read the Bible pretty much cover to cover - long, boring read but necessary, as it is the keystone of thinking of the Western World, believer or not)

Just one :nuke: of Iran and it is as plain as the nose on a face, Bushler IS the AntiChrist. Now that he and his pals have collapsed the global markets with their serial criminalities using all the Power of the State and looted trillions, I see only one checkbox left unchecked in Bushler's AntiChrist Scorecard.

:nuke: