Bears Ears Fight Continues

[Waterbaby]

http://www.lakepowelllife.com/bears-ears-fight-continues/

Bears Ears Fight Continues

February 07
10:34 2017

by KXAZ News
The Utah Legislature passed a resolution Friday demanding that the federal government find a way to reverse the designation of Bears Ears National Monument in December.

Senator Todd Weiler declared, “The footprint is too large. The process was too wrong.” He added, “It’s insulting that President Obama couldn’t even interrupt his golfing in Hawaii to come to Utah for the designation ceremony.”

At the heart of the push to reverse the designation is that now that Bears Ears is a National Monument is that oil and gas drilling and expansion of cattle grazing is off limits.

A National Monument of this size has never been overturned; only smaller historical monuments have been shut down or transferred to state management.

A companion resolution reducing the acreage of Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument has passed the House and is before the Senate.

The handful of Democrats in the Legislature opposed both resolutions, and they are also fighting Republicans’ attempt to acquire state ownership of federal lands.

Senator Jim Dabakis said about the situation, “Heaven help us id this dog catches the car. If we ever did get all the federal land, the taxpayers in Utah would go broke.”

Small protests broke out at the Utah state capitol after the Legislature passed the resolutions. Many Native American tribes have voiced their support for Bears Ears saying they would mobilize from around the country to come to Utah to fightfor the National Monument, if needed.

 

[Waterbaby]

"Many Native American tribes have voiced their support for Bears Ears saying they would mobilize from around the country to come to Utah to fightfor the National Monument, if needed."

This is what happened in North Dakota to stop the pipeline. The tribe the pipeline went across supported it but professional protestors under the guise of other Indian tribes [as well as other "environmental" protestors] descended on the area and the result is a toxic cleanup mess the EPA is now having to clean up - and they are looking throught he toxic mess for dead bodies, that is how bad it is. These are all professionally-organized protests and there is nothing environmental about them. If they move into SW Utah over this we will see this area turn into another trash heap - everywhere these people go they leave behind the equivalent of a Woodstock........ if you have not seen the pictures of what has been left behind in North Dakota you should, they fear the snow will melt before they can clean up the mess the so-called environmentalists left behind and they pollute the local river and lake.......

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbl...go-ahead-as-site-cleanup-begins/#50c865907044

 

[Dale]

"Many Native American tribes have voiced their support for Bears Ears saying they would mobilize from around the country to come to Utah to fightfor the National Monument, if needed."

This is what happened in North Dakota to stop the pipeline. The tribe the pipeline went across supported it but professional protestors under the guise of other Indian tribes [as well as other "environmental" protestors] descended on the area and the result is a toxic cleanup mess the EPA is now having to clean up - and they are looking throught he toxic mess for dead bodies, that is how bad it is. These are all professionally-organized protests and there is nothing environmental about them. If they move into SW Utah over this we will see this area turn into another trash heap - everywhere these people go they leave behind the equivalent of a Woodstock........ if you have not seen the pictures of what has been left behind in North Dakota you should, they fear the snow will melt before they can clean up the mess the so-called environmentalists left behind and they pollute the local river and lake.......

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbl...go-ahead-as-site-cleanup-begins/#50c865907044

The tribe needs to sue the ecowacko nutcase groups for every penny they will ever generate from the ignorant coastal city dwellers that believe their lies, and fund their criminal activities. Maybe it will keep them out of Bears Ears if they have no money. I don't think the Navajos that live there support the ecokookos destroying their lifestyle.