arizonaames
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Unfortunately, big money interests are at work again. If you search, you will find that the biggest contributors to the Sierra Clubs are big oil and natural gas interests (they recently contributed 23 million to the Sierra Club in Chesapeake Bay), Timber interests in the northeast, and mining interests in NV. They had the Klamath tribe take their combined interest to federal court. It is like the spotted owl that was used to keep small lumber companies from working to protect the interests of large companies like weyerhaeuser . Big corporations got smart in the 80s and now use these environmental groups and interests for their own. Here is what the outcome is and it puts the small miner without a chance of recreational mining in favor of big companies that can afford an evironmental impact for the courts.
Court makes it tougher on small-time gold miners - Times-Standard Online
I have been describing what has been happening to our individual rights on federal lands for years but it is divide and conquer with big business, as usual, and big corporations have all but kicked the individual citizens from their claims and rights using the BLM, Environmental groups, and the National Forest Service. Big money corrupts and they can even spend the money to advertise enough so that they can convince you that it is not them with their hands in your pocket and you will constantly believe them if told often enough.
