The leader of the San Carlos Apache Tribe is asking the Senate not to
vote on the annual National Defense Authorization Act until a provision
that would allow a massive copper mining project on sacred land is
removed. The House approved a bill on December 4 that gives 2,400 acres of sacred Apache
land to a giant international mining corporation, then sent it to the
Senate for a fast vote in a process that won’t allow amendments to be
made. The Senate is expected to act on it this week. The land swap bill, called the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and
Conservation Act of 2013 (H.R. 687), was attached as a rider to the
annual must-pass National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) along with several other land-related bills. If approved by the Senate and signed by President Obama, the land swap legislation will allow Resolution Copper Co.,
a subsidiary of the controversial international mining conglomerate Rio
Tinto, to acquire 2,400 acres of the federally protected public land in
the Tonto National Forest in southeast Arizona in exchange for 5,000 acres in parcels scattered around the state...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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