someplace, that FPOS Riady is smiling...
Posted on 01/23/2008 5:59:25 PM PST by Kaslin
Scandals: Hillary Clinton calls President Bush's talks with the Saudis about increasing oil output "pathetic." But it's not as pathetic as her co-president husband locking up billions of tons of clean coal in exchange for political contributions.
A large part of America's energy dependence on foreign sources can be traced to Sept. 18, 1996, when President Bill Clinton stood on the edge of the Grand Canyon on the Arizona side and signed an executive proclamation making 1.7 million acres of Utah a new national monument.
Why would he dedicate a Utah monument while standing in Arizona? Well, this federal land grab was done without any consultation with the governor of Utah or any member of the Utah congressional delegation or any elected official in the state. The unfriendly Utah natives might have spoiled his photo-op.
The state already had six national monuments, two national recreation areas and all or part of five national forests. Three-quarters of Utah already was in federal hands. Still, the land grab was sold as a move to protect the environment.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
The Grand Escalante Staircase locked up ALL of our good coal.
THIS WHOLE article needs to be on every FREAKING Clinton thread! NO ONE remembers all this stuff....let’s REMIND people...OK??? Will you do that? Post this on the threads?? Put the nmae of JAMES RIADY in the title.
At a time when the rest of the low ash lignite was either in Kosovo or Indonesia, the latter belonging to Riyady (sp?) of the Lippo group, if my memory serves. It was a payback for support for Bill that the only mineable deposit belonged to Riyady.
Please pass this info on to remind freepers and Enemedia lurkers what Clinton did...thanks.
KOSOVO????? Is there a correlation since we went into Kosovo???hmmmmmmm
Remember this?
“President Bush is over in the Gulf now begging the Saudis and others to drop the price of oil. How pathetic.”
the cost of oil came down considerably today
Did you read the whole article?? Just curious becuae this story is WAAAAAYYY bigger than what Hillary said and waaaaayy bigger than our oil coming down today.
Actually {for the IBD's edification}, all of the Grand Canyon is in Arizona, as is all of Marble Canyon of which the Colorado river flows through beforehand.
That aside, the yellowBelly weasle billyJeffClinton was about 100 miles from the land he was grabbing.
IIRC, since then the sheriff's of Utah's Kane & Garfield counties rescinded the right of the BLM to enforce their insane limitations on motor vehicle travel with the monument..
As a matter of fact I have driven through the staircase several times and it's natural beauty is a wonder to behold.
From what I gather full scale underground mining operations would leave a tiny foot print on the 1.7 million acre monument.
Agreed, and for those that do remember those days its important to keep it simple:
2. Riady is a billionaire who funneled illegal campaign money to clinton.
3. Riady controls the second the largest deposit of this “clean coal”.
4. Lrgest deposit (in US) was made off limits when clinton declared the area a national park.
Why didnt president bush just rescind this executive order?
Ditto that. By the way, if you are ever driving through that area, the scenery is spectacular, and the BLM facilities along Hwy 89 have nice bathrooms. Watch out for speed traps in Kanab.
Yes. This was very obvious at the time. Regretably, when the Bush administration came in it did NOTHING to reverse it, beyond a short period of mumbling about the issue, and the press certainly won’t say anything about it.
What was done in clintonoid fashion, “Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Cool!” could have been undone with a similar stroke of the pen. But it certainly won’t happen now in the next nine months.
We have wasted 8 years without any real effort to solve the energy crisis. Sure, the Democrats obstructed at every turn, and sure, Bush put forward an energy bill every year for 5 or 6 years, but no real effort was made to explain the need for opening ANWR, for developing clean coal, or for cutting the red tape on new refineries. Or, of course, the most realistic solution, nuclear power.
The Dems were allowed to get away with blocking any useful initiative, with the help of a few pestilent RINOs like Lincoln Chaffee. Yet Bush did nothing to punish Chaffee or deprive him of pork, and even supported him in the primary for re-election.
No way the media will ever publicize this story. It’s a dead issue for them. It needs to be shoved down their throats.
Just remember, with BJ and Hell in the office, there is no such thing as Mutually Assured Destruction. We are wide open.
“......would leave a tiny foot print on the 1.7 million acre monument......”
Sounds a lot like ANWR
someplace, that FPOS Riady is smiling...
people deserve what they put up with.
For a good example look to the coal mining area around Price Ut; one has to look hard to find the coal mines that are wedged up into a few canyons
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