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Perspective for your consideration … What does it look like when it’s fixed…?

Stop covert bid to gamble beauty…The Arizona Republic… David Nimkin
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/2008/10/25/20081025grandcanyon25.html ... EXCERPTED ... It is indeed ironic, that as we face a financial crisis of historic and global proportions - due in a large extent to deregulation and diverted oversight - the Bush administration would seek to reduce oversight and safeguards for a place as significant and remarkable as the Grand Canyon. Yet that is what has happened - and concerned citizens have only until Monday to oppose this damaging proposal. The swelling price of uranium ore on world markets has sparked renewed interest in mining claims throughout the Colorado Plateau. There are more than 10,000 hard-rock mining claims near Grand Canyon National Park already, and 3,000 uranium-mining claims. Then late last year, the administration authorized a permit for exploratory uranium drilling on federal land just 2 miles from Grand Canyon - risking this national treasure. The administration then offered the public a meager 15 days to learn of the rule change and comment on it. We would be foolish and future generations profoundly sorry, if we don't challenge this perverse effort to ravage our national treasures in the name of resource extraction. Please mail written comments to the Director, Bureau of Land Management, 1620 L Street, NW, Room 401, Washington, D.C. 20036, Attention: RIN 1004-AE05, or visit www.regulations.gov (type RIN 1004-AE05 to find the proposed regulation) and offer your opinion before the close of the public comment period on Monday. It is up to all of us to ensure the Grand Canyon and all national parks are preserved unimpaired for our children and grandchildren. David Nimkin is southwest regional director of the non-profit National Parks Conservation Association.

I rise to express my alarm that as the director of the southwest National Park Conservation Association, Mr. Nimkin would be blind to the manner in which the Bush administration has chosen to treat all aspects of our environment. In his terms as President, Mr. Bush has consistently taken a stand which enhances the bottom line of industry and always opposed to the wishes and concerns of the public. That Bush would at this late date change his stripes and see value in the preservation of pristine conditions in the Grand Canyon is sheer insanity. The mining interest have been working incessantly to open vast new tracts of land to exploration, which I must suspect Mr. Nimkin is far more aware than am I…? To plead the accusations alleged by Mr. Nimkin at the eleventh hour causes me extreme heart burn and I want badly to blame and shame his action, though I can understand his reluctance to act previously.

I suspect under the cover of darkness in the lingering days of the Bush administration actions will be secretly taken which only much later may see the light of day well after the damage has been done. Such has become the lingering action of our Presidents of late as they leave office knowing there is nothing anyone can really do to harm or stop their actions.

In this event, we have been forewarned albeit at the 11th hour, but we do have an opportunity to be expressed should we care to take it.


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