Uranium Company Urged Trump To Carve Up Bears Ears, Then He Did

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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/uraniumco-bears-ears-carve_us_5a2ddd59e4b073789f6ae643?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
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Earlier this month Donald Trump hailed his edict slashing Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument by some 85 percent as a great move for American citizens. But another interest was likely far more delighted: a mining company that lobbied for the change in a bid for access to uranium on the public land.

The Washington Post discovered a campaign by Energy Fuels Resources, a U.S. subsidiary of a Canadian firm, urging the Trump administration to dramatically reduce Bears Ears. The company reached out just months before Trump announced he was slashing the 1.35 million acre site down to 202,000 acres.

Company CEO Mark Chalmers complained in a May 25 letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke that the national monument protections could “affect existing and future mill operations” of the company, which owns a mill adjacent to Bears Ears. He added: “There are also many other known uranium and vanadium deposits ... that could provide valuable energy and mineral resources in the future.”

Zinke has insisted the president’s push to reduce national monuments has nothing to do with mining interests. “This is not about energy,” Zinke told reporters last week. “There is no mine within Bears Ears.”

But the president’s redrawn boundaries of Bears Ears now puts the uranium deposits outside the protected area, Utah’s Republican Gov. Gary Herbert pointed out in an interview with the Post.

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So Congress will investigate Hillary

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1. But but only because Hillary sold all the Uranium to the Russkies??? LOL

[L. Coyote]

2. And they weren't the only ones. A consortium of resource extractors were involved in opposition.

And they will steal all the public land if we do not defend it.

FROM: Trump illegally shrinks Utah monuments, riling tribes and environmentalists
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029925248

30. SCOOP: A uranium firm urged Interior to scale back

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3. Trump is trying to take down the country in order to help Russia and he is pissed that President ...

..... Obama supported making the Grand Staircase Escalante a national monument.