Pombo Plan to Plunder Public Lands

[rodeodance]

I got this as an email.

Good gawd--it seems to me that Pombo thinks he is the owner of this public land!!!!!

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Subject: Berkowitz-InterPressService-11.15-
Pombo Plan to Plunder Public Lands
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:27:32 -0500 (EST)
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http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31021

Public Lands Steered to Private Hands
Bill Berkowitz

OAKLAND, California, Nov 15 (IPS) - Richard Pombo, a California Republican who chairs the House Resources Committee, is making a name for himself these days by offering up a series of controversial bills relating to land use in the United States' national parks and other critical environmental issues.

In a recent version of the House budget bill, Pombo was the author of a proposal that would have opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling (that provision was removed from the budget reconciliation bill but it could still be re-inserted).

Pombo also made headlines when he recently proposed privatising 15 of the country's national parks. He later claimed to be only joking.

Now, it appears that Pombo is no longer joking. The former real estate salesman, who is serving his seventh term in Congress, has come up with what critics say is another doozy of a proposal. This one was tucked deep into the same 187-page House budget bill in a section called "Miscellaneous Amendments Related to Mining."

According to an Environmental Working Group (EWG) press release on Nov. 10, Pombo's proposal would allow "foreign mining companies, real estate speculators, oil and mining conglomerates, or anyone else to purchase up to 350 million acres of American taxpayers' lands for as little as 1,000 dollars per acre."

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[orpupilofnature57]

1. The Dominion Theocracy , hard at work!

I expect Shrub to really turn up the plunder for the next year.