Posted on 11/02/2009 12:39:49 AM PST by bruinbirdman
Only Congress stands in the way of the abundant copper, gold and silver in the U.S.
Finally there is a semblance of sanity in Washington. Alaska’s Senator Lisa Murkowski (Republican, Alaska) the ranking member on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee recently presented a Congressional briefing on our pending resource dependence. In her briefing, focused on clean energy, Senator Murkowski said:
"Our most difficult challenge may be our most fundamental: ensuring a stable supply of the raw materials needed to manufacture clean energy technologies in the first place."
The clean energy (note the Senator's refreshing use of "clean," not "green") issue provides a necessary focal point on US natural resource dependence. Till now a powerful environmental lobby has hijacked the extractive resources industries. Claiming that the Mining Law of 1872 is antiquated they are insisting, and Congress is following meekly not wanting to offend, that all domestic mining and natural resource extraction should be halted. This trend is not new; the current administration in Washington refuses to allow development of off shore oil and gas resources. The Secretary of the Interior recently issued a two year moratorium on new exploration and mining of uranium on the Arizona Strip. These are some of the highest grade uranium resources in the country. Twenty million pounds of uranium were mined on the Arizona Strip in the 1980s with no environmental impact whatsoever.
The proposed "new" mining law, already passed by the House, would assess an 8% gross royalty on new mines. While existing mines would receive an exemption (similar to the cap and trade bait) new resource exploration in the US would, for all intents and purposes, cease. This would occur at a time in our history when we are attempting to repair and reinvent our crumbling infrastructure. For example the proposed
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You would think that this would no longer be a question! Leave it to the politicians and of course their friends (Environmentalists) to cause our downfall due to a shortage of natural resources (oil, gas, and coal).
What chance do we have when those in charge are against energy independence?
Leave it to the politicians and of course their financial patrons (Environmentalists and freedom haters at the Tides Foundation) to cause our downfall due to a deliberate shortage of natural resources (oil, gas, coal, rare earths, gold, silver, other essential minerals and metals).
What chance do we have when those in charge are against independence and sovereignty?
Ban Mining. Let the Bastards Freeze in the Dark.
Yep, you’re obviously talking about Democrats blocking progress... Amen! Seems like Beck may be right - they are intentionally trying to destroy this country or at least the economic system.
No fair imitating the Democrats!
That will never happen until the Obamao regime is booted out.
“they are intentionally trying to destroy this country or at least the economic system.”
There’s a difference? Glad that you like others are beginning to catch on to this “movement” which has been going on (mostly obscured or hidden by the media) for the past 40 years. So much damage has been done in those early years, it would take pages, maybe a book, to catalogue.
I am sure George Soros could arrange it for a fee, say 10 - 20%.
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