Comments on: Senate Votes For Polar Bear To Control Economic Growth http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2009/03/09/senate-votes-for-polar-bear-to-control-economic-growth/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=senate-votes-for-polar-bear-to-control-economic-growth Black Bear Blog - The Politics of Hunting, Fishing and the Outdoors. Protecting our American Heritage. Sat, 26 May 2012 08:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Greg Farber http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2009/03/09/senate-votes-for-polar-bear-to-control-economic-growth/#comment-12732 Greg Farber Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:52:09 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/?p=5549#comment-12732 This looks like a part of Nick Rahall's Bill-H.R. 699. This anti Mining Bill is nation wide, Of course everything these goobers are doing is counter Declaration of Independence via Agenda 21-Sustainable Development-Smart Growth-- This crashing orchestrated economy is taking us into the POST INDUSTRIAL AGE..The enviro movement is and always has been about protecting resources for foreign bankers, as those are collateral for their fake debt.. H.R. 699 should be called H.R. 666....The world's politico are dropping THORS HAMMER folks...which is the SWASTIKA....No more VELVET gloves soon...The ESA was scam from the get go...It's all in the IRON MOUNTAIN REPORT of 1967---No one listened and now bang, the shit is hitting the fan.. This looks like a part of Nick Rahall’s Bill-H.R. 699. This anti Mining Bill is nation wide, Of course everything these goobers are doing is counter Declaration of Independence via Agenda 21-Sustainable Development-Smart Growth– This crashing orchestrated economy is taking us into the POST INDUSTRIAL AGE..The enviro movement is and always has been about protecting resources for foreign bankers, as those are collateral for their fake debt.. H.R. 699 should be called H.R. 666….The world’s politico are dropping THORS HAMMER folks…which is the SWASTIKA….No more VELVET gloves soon…The ESA was scam from the get go…It’s all in the IRON MOUNTAIN REPORT of 1967—No one listened and now bang, the shit is hitting the fan..

]]> By: Dennis Noll http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2009/03/09/senate-votes-for-polar-bear-to-control-economic-growth/#comment-12731 Dennis Noll Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:23:04 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/?p=5549#comment-12731 The Federal Fish and Wildlife Service has recently changed its interpretation of the Endangered Species Act to attack mining, particularly coal mining. Unlike the previous rules which allowed mining companies to coexist with the Indiana Bat, Fish and Wildlife now wants the Indiana Bat to not have to share its habitat . This is being done by demanding, as a condition of permit issuance for any proposed mining site found to be within 10 miles of an Indiana Bat hibernating place, that any Indiana Bat habitat (woods) proposed to be disturbed be replaced on or adjacent to the proposed site at a two to one ratio and that the replacement habitat be permanently protected through conservation easements so that no other use that conflicts with bat habitat is possible. If that is not possible an off-site wooded area that is at least 50 years old can be deeded to a conservancy for permanent protection. These rules are not possible to comply with and will kill most of the mining projects proposed within these areas. The scope of this problem may be more appreciated when one realizes that a 10 mile radius of protection for an Indiana Bat hibernaculum is equal to 200,000 acres. In Pennsylvania, where the number of these hibernaculums have increased from 10 in 2003 to 17 in 2007, this means a potential of 3,400,000 acres of mining is suddenly off-limits. That's a lot of jobs lost, just when we can ill-afford it. It is also a huge taking of land relative to mineral owners who were planning to benefit from mining. And, it is absolutely in opposition to the goal of energy independence! The Federal Fish and Wildlife Service has recently changed its interpretation of the Endangered Species Act to attack mining, particularly coal mining. Unlike the previous rules which allowed mining companies to coexist with the Indiana Bat, Fish and Wildlife now wants the Indiana Bat to not have to share its habitat . This is being done by demanding, as a condition of permit issuance for any proposed mining site found to be within 10 miles of an Indiana Bat hibernating place, that any Indiana Bat habitat (woods) proposed to be disturbed be replaced on or adjacent to the proposed site at a two to one ratio and that the replacement habitat be permanently protected through conservation easements so that no other use that conflicts with bat habitat is possible. If that is not possible an off-site wooded area that is at least 50 years old can be deeded to a conservancy for permanent protection. These rules are not possible to comply with and will kill most of the mining projects proposed within these areas.

The scope of this problem may be more appreciated when one realizes that a 10 mile radius of protection for an Indiana Bat hibernaculum is equal to 200,000 acres. In Pennsylvania, where the number of these hibernaculums have increased from 10 in 2003 to 17 in 2007, this means a potential of 3,400,000 acres of mining is suddenly off-limits. That’s a lot of jobs lost, just when we can ill-afford it. It is also a huge taking of land relative to mineral owners who were planning to benefit from mining. And, it is absolutely in opposition to the goal of energy independence!

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