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November 29, 2005
Stop the Western Land Grab
By a two-vote margin, The House of Representatives has passed a bill to "reconcile" or adjust the federal budget. Deep within this budget bill, there are disastrous provisions that will seriously undercut the federal stewardship of our natural heritage. These provisions amount to a major land grab and a bad deal for taxpayers.There is no similar provision in the Senate version, so it is still possible that the provision can be dropped when the two bills are combined. Informal negotiations between the House and Senate have begun. Write to your Senator now!
The "mining" section of the House Budget Reconciliation bill puts millions of acres of Western public lands up for sale and actually weakens an already-antiquated 133-year-old law governing mining activities on federal lands.
Should the provision championed by Rep. Pombo (R-CA) and Rep. Gibbons (R-NV) become law, wilderness study areas, roadless forest lands, areas in National Parks and other treasured places could be turned over to mining companies, oil and gas companies and other developers.
If you think that Teddy Roosevelt had it right when he fought to protect some 230 million acres of public lands, speak out now to make sure your Senator acts to have this public land giveaway stripped from the joint House-Senate reconciliation bill.
For every bill that is passed there is always something nefarious buried within the legislation. I have ranted many times about this and I'm not going to talk about how ignorant this practice is today, but I am going to point out that we need to put an end to this type of thing. Write or call your senators today. This kind of environmental raping and pillaging needs to be stopped...NOW!!
Found via Jamison from Praxxus.
Also see the Net Environmental Trust to send you letter today.
Posted by Daffodil at November 29, 2005 12:14 PM
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