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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (171)	1/5/2003 8:01:24 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 25898

OT: Home On the Range PartyTime, Yes, the article was from the NY Times. Re: into environmental voters due to the damage and havoc now wrecked within their backyards? Not Green Party members yet. But at least willing to begin to listen to the environmentalists. Re: What's the deal there, is it that the federal government owns the mining rights on land that citizens actually own; and now the government can lease out those mining rights no matter what those landowners think or wish to have happen on their property? Surface rights were largely granted through homesteading acts which separated surface and mineral rights. Minerals rights were maintained by the Feds, who are now issuing the leases to the wildcatters. More detail in the article. The ironic twist now is that the national GHP is fighting against state's rights to protect the environment. We don't call it the Gross Hypocrisy Party for nuttin'! -R.