Hardrock mining, nuclear energy advocate Craig resigns Senate seat

[bananas]

http://www.mineweb.net/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page60?oid=26472&sn=Detail

MINING CAN STILL RELY ON REID, DOMINICI
Hardrock mining, nuclear energy advocate Craig resigns Senate seat

As one of western hardrock mining's most powerful allies announced his resignation from the U.S. Senate, an FBI investigation of Alaska officials could further shrink the ranks of mining supporters.

Author: Dorothy Kosich
Posted: Sunday , 02 Sep 2007

RENO, NV -

Under siege in an airport bathroom sex solicitation scandal, Idaho Senator Larry Craig, one of western hardrock mining's staunchest supporters, declared Saturday that he would resign from the U.S. Senate effective September 30.

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The senior senator had successfully fought for years against House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall, D-West Virginia, to substantially revise the 1872 Mining Law. During his 28-year career in the House and the Senate, Craig had participated in federal legislation on behalf of the Northwest Mining Association, the National Mining Association and other mining groups. He was also an advocate of the development of domestic nuclear power.

Despite the loss of Craig, western hardrock miners still can rely on über-powerful Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, and the formidable Sen. Pete Dominici, R-New Mexico, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, for help in the upcoming Mining Law reform battle.

Craig was also among the strongest defenders of another mining advocate Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, now under investigation by the FBI in the VECO oil pipeline corruption probe. The FBI is also investigating why Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, another powerful western hardrock mining supporter, slipped a $10 million earmark into a federal highway bill for a road in Florida near property owned by a major campaign donor.

[medeak]

1. jezzuz...now using Craig as anti mining?

pleeze....

[aquart]

2. Huh?

[NNadir]

3. This is rich, really.

Here we have one of our most persistent antinukes complaining about mining?

There is NOT one antinuke who could care less how many mountains are ripped apart for mines or how many people are killed in the process. The greatest mass of mining in this country is <em>coal</em> mining by far. Antinukes couldn't care less about coal.

The antinuke industry is so weak minded that it is left with "guilt by association" bad reasoning.
This is hardly new, but it is the height of hypocrisy for an anti-nuke to complain about mining when the anti-nuke industry is responsible for so much mining. In particular the fossil fuel shill Gerhard Schroeder who destroyed his country's nuclear infrastructure for 300,000 pieces of silver per year, is going to cause South Africa to be ripped apart with mines in order to serve the new German coal plants. This act of pure vandalism is the direct responsibility of the anti-nuke industry. Is it "guilt by association" to mention the Gazprom owned Schroeder. No, I am not criticizing Schroeder's gas shilling because he was crawling under a toilet divider. I am criticizing him for his actions on energy, which will lead to loss of lives.

Eleanor Roosevelt - for my money the greatest Democrat of all time, no demagogue - wrote thusly:

A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt

Mrs. Roosevelt, who knew far more about Democratic values than you do, touches on an important point.

I didn't know much about Senator Craig until this matter of his arrest came up. Frankly, what happened to him troubles me, because it is clear that if his "crime" had been heterosexual rather than homosexual, the world probably couldn't have cared less, just as anti-nukes couldn't care less about the damage done by coal but scream loudly at every little blip involving nuclear energy. If it is true that Senator Craig was a friend to nuclear energy, then this was the "good" in him that Mrs. Roosevelt taught us to expect from <em>all</em> people. It means that he was not absolutely bad.

If Senator Craig came out against dog fighting, that would not make dog fighting good.

Mrs. Roosevelt was a mature thinker. It's not the kind of thing I'd expect you to appreciate.

[wordpix]

4. NNadir, get a grip. Most anti-nukes are also against raping the Earth thru big mining, clearcutting

and other sacrileges.

Your rants are getting tiring and I'm betting no one reads them anyway.

[NNadir]

5. I don't agree.

The anti-nukes here only talk about nuclear energy.

Maybe you didn't hear this: My opinion is that anti-nukes couldn't care less about coal. There are five form of energy that produce on a ten exajoule scale or greater. There's coal, 120 exajoules, gas, 110 exajoules, oil, 200 exajoules, nuclear 30 exajoules and hydro at ten exajoules.

Of these five, 3 are dangerous fossil fuels about which the anti-nukes couldn't care less, 1, hydro is tapped out and one is expandable to a several hundred exajoule scale.

Maybe you don't want to read my posts, and I couldn't care less if you click on them frankly. On the other hand, I am not going to stop saying that the anti-nukes are against the only climate change gas free form of energy that is scalable. That gives dangerous fossil fuels a bye and it helps foster the tragedy of dangerous fossil fuels and thus proves that the anti-nuke cult couldn't care less about dangerous fossil fuels.

[bananas]

7. Your opinion is wrong.

[NNadir]

8. I couldn't care less...

...what you think about right and wrong.

I have strong opinions about the ethics of dogmatic religions, and they are not

That should be immediately clear, but then again - if one is not hallucinating - a lot of things should be care.

I have zero ethical respect for the reflexive anti-nuke community since it opposes the system of energy that is, by far, the world's largest source of climate change free energy.

I regard climate change as a serious issue of right and wrong. The right thing is as clear as water to all but those who having some kind of dangerous hallucination.

I couldn't care less about hallucinations except to point out that they are hallucinations.

[diane in sf]

6. Good bye! What a blow, as it were, to these industires.

[IDemo]

9. or maybe not..

http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/stories/ktvbn-sep0407-craig_resignation.a10a3a3c.html