Zinke Seems To Carve Out Exception For Home State On Shrinking Monuments
Source: Talking Points Memo
By MATTHEW BROWN Published SEPTEMBER 27, 2017 1:29 PM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has closely followed his boss’ playbook, encouraging mining and drilling on public lands and reducing the size of national monuments that President Donald Trump called a “massive land grab” by his Democratic predecessors.
Except, that is, in Montana.
In Zinke’s home state, the former congressman who has long harbored higher political ambitions is recommending Trump create a new national monument out of the forests bordering Glacier National Park, to the disappointment of a company that wants to drill for natural gas there.
A couple hundred miles away, where rocky bluffs line the Missouri River, he decided to leave intact a 590-square-mile (1,528-square-kilometer) monument that for 16 years has stirred the kind of impassioned local opposition that Zinke cited in justifying changes to monuments elsewhere.
And he wants to curb mining along Montana’s border with Yellowstone National Park. That could discourage development of two proposed mines that supporters say would offer higher paying jobs than tourism.
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And now the group that supported this ass**** now thinks that what he is doing is wrong....................
You have as much sh*t on your hands as this guy, and the f*cking guy you supported in the general election who is a sexual predator.
Do you realize Tawney, damn near every monument in this country is near Indigenous Peoples sacred sites, haven't you figured that out by now, it's our country..............nope, you and your Manifest Destiny bunch are hypocrites............
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