Grand Canyon Protected From New Uranium Mines

ENS Newswire ^ | 1-10-12

[SJackson]

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I'm sure no one wanted those jobs anyway.

[bert]

So, The action is appeasement and has no real effect on current leases or mines.

if the current claims peter out another President can restore the ability to mine if actually needed

[EternalVigilance]

Secretary Salazar signed a Record of Decision today

Who needs laws and lawmakers, right?

[piytar]

More importantly for obama, there won’t be any more rare earth mines. China apprecuates that...

[rarestia]

I wonder how much uranium is “in them thar hills?” Are we talking about a few hundred tons or millions? Seems to me that if we need uranium to power nuclear power plants, we should be farming it from our own natural resources; but, OH YEAH! We’re not allowing any new nuclear power plant construction.

Silly me.

[G Larry]

Obama shutting off America’s access to true energy independence!

[piytar]

Appreciates...

[TADSLOS]

Who needs laws and lawmakers, right?

The Dark Prince and his Czars are in charge now.

[mountainlion]

More environmentalists blackmail.

[EternalVigilance]

Apparently.

[TADSLOS]

It would be interesting to see the measle sheet on exactly where the active mines and claims are located in relation to the park’s boundaries. My guess is they aren’t even that close to be any factor.

[shadeaud]

Is it true that our submarines will be powered by solar energy and all nuclear plants shall change to wind power. Once that happens we can add more white to our flag.

[CrazyIvan]

That’s got to be one big snorkel to suck in all those photons!

[Mr. K]

I see ‘Protected’ made it into the title

No bias here

because mining is evil, and we must ‘protect’ those lands from it.

[Dixie Yooper]

I'm sure no one wanted those jobs anyway.

Once China takes over, there will be plenty of jobs there.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

‘s okay. We can just buy whatever uranium we need from Iran.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Approximately 3,200 mining claims are currently located in the withdrawal areas. ****

I lived at Moab UT, back in 1955. There were piles of stone everywhere put up as claim markers.

On a trip to Dead Horse Point, these markers were everywhere.

I went back through there in 1998. There was not a claim marker anywhere to be seen.

My dad worked at the Rattlesnake Uranium mine, La Sal. Best time of my young life!

[Hot Tabasco]

If I recall, during the Clinton administration he too signed a bill banning some sort of mining around the Grand Canyon area.......

Looks like the Grand Canyon is becoming the most protected hole in the ground on this entire plant.......