Advisory Council, Electoral College, Tell Your Story ~~ June 1, 2019

Reservoirs Fill After Winter Snows

Remember all the years the City Council in Blanding was dogged in their resolve to drill deep wells, build reservoirs, put in pipes for better water distribution, fund additional engineering projects to protect this this valuable resource!?  

Well, it was a priority, and after the drought of last year, we understand even more why local governments are key in making decisions that benefit all its citizens.

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# Bears Ears Nat'l Monument Advisory Meeting June 5-6

Plan to attend

#Utah's Public Radio Story Telling Project.  Here's how to be involved:

           Follow the link and fill out survey.  UPR will be in San Juan County June 19-21

They hope to involve many local people in short interview sessions

#This Week's SJ Record: News in a Nutshell Bill Boyle

#Last Week's News: Editor Bill Boyle, SJ Record

#Electoral College Opponents Attempt to Have It Both Ways

#Videos Show LaVoy Finicum Death was Planned Assassination 

"Evidence proves that LaVoy was murdered in cold blood. Had authorities responded to Greg Bretzing and Dan Love in 2009, this chain of events may have been much different. Instead we stand and watch as our friends and neighbors are raided, falsely accused and prosecuted, and subjected to the lies and derision of hateful colluding special interest groups. Can LaVoy’s death be anything but wrongful? Instead of covering the truth, the media has done nothing but denigrate the honest people, while protecting the snakes who are orchestrating these actions."  Rep. Phil Lyman

#Montezuma County: A Sanctuary County For the Right to Bear Arms?

#Bears Ears Referendum: Should Decision be made by Voters?

 #SJ County Wrestles with Litigation, Referendum Requests Four Corners Free Press:

#Are we Misreading and Misleading Millennials

#Laws-Grayeyes Appeal Still Pending: Earlier Events and Comments

~~ Blanding City Reaps the Benefits of Dry Wash Reservoir Pipeline

~~ 101 Things to Do in San Juan County

~~ US Minerals: Don't Undermine Them      Free Range Report   

" The one economic sector that meets the American appetite for raw materials, gadgets, high-tech equipment, cars, jetliners and "renewable" energy technologies that we take for granted -- all of which are made from minerals and metals -- mining!.

~~Senator Romney Introduces Legislation to Settle Water Rights for Navajos

~~Mill Protesters Chose Not to Research Facts

"If anyone wants to see the data for sampling that happens at and around the mill [Energy Fuels] go to the link below. Everything that is sampled is public information and can be found on this site including the mill license and requirements to operate. The samples that are analyzed in these reports are all done offsite at independent labs. The sample results show the tailings ponds are not leaking. Also, white mesa gets their drinking water from the Navajo aquifer and there is an impermeable layer of clay between the Dakota aquifer and the Navajo aquifer. 

So even if there were a leak it cannot get into the Navajo aquifer that is used for drinking. 

There are over 100 wells that get sampled, air monitoring stations, soil sampling, vegetation sampling, seeps and springs sampling, stack sampling, radon sampling, and surface water sampling done all around the mill. These samples all show the mill is not contaminating anything in the area. The results are all provided in the link. There is a lot more information I could post on here but it would take all day. Hope that helps.    G. Palmer  

https://deq.utah.gov/.../ener.../white-mesa-uranium-mill.htm

~~ Gov. Docs reveal who donated To SJC Democratic Campaign

 . . ."interesting financial information can be found by reviewing the financial disclosures statements of the San Juan County Democratic Party and both the Maryboy and Grayeyes' Campaigns. All 3 show sharp increases in money beginning in July 2018 and running through the election. We learn two things from this. First, very few San Juan County residents contributed to their campaigns. Two, San Juan County can be bought for about $60,000 - the cost of the two Commissioner races." 

"When you look into the disclosure statements of the non-profit groups that donated to the San Juan County Democratic Party and the Maryboy Campaign you'll also find very interesting results. The chair of one of those non-profits is the former Political Director for the Utah Democratic Party and the current CEO/Chair of the Rural Utah Project. The Rural Utah Project is the one that registered all those new voters last year in San Juan County." 

~~ Will Trump Administration Revive Domestic Uranium Market?

#Up to Date News from the BLM

~~Nat'l Parks More Affected by Climate Change than other Areas

                     (Hmmm, Did they factor in Industrial Strength Tourism?)

~~Toxic Flowers Suspected in Cattle Deaths

~~ SJ County Commission Declines Referendum Application May 21 

~~ Mix of Anglos and White Mesa residents March to Uranium Mill in Protest

~~ Vandalism on Shinob Kibe in Washington, Utah

~~ and the irony ....Tourism Boosts the Economy. . .but is the price worth it?

Fie on groups Using and Abusing federal $ to Suck the Life out of Rural Communities

Letter to: National Parks Service 12/ 20/ 2017 

National Parks and Monuments have been the victims of poor management, and inadequate budget allocation for decades. Far too much of the DOI funding has been spent on EPA speculation, research, and over spending, on both the state and federal levels. Funds that should have been used to actually maintain existing park "environment" have instead been wasted on frivolous studies and lawsuits, involving sage grouse, turtles, birds, etc. It's time that the DOI takes back its role in managing actual land, water, its resources, and possibilities for multiple use. If wisely utilized the land, timber, and minerals could actually generate money. 

Public lands and those who use them, should generate part of this financial backlog; however, a bigger question is, how much has been spent paying lawyers who make life miserable for Western states and counties? The curse of litigation provides little benefit to real people who live in the West, nor the land they live by. It only spends more and more government money, while maintenance of parks and facilities degenerate more each year. Fie on the so called green friendly groups and their grants and lawsuits, who use and abuse federal money to suck the life out of rural communities and surrounding public lands
Hopefully, you can rectify this mire of neglect, and the excess of litigation.
   Janet Wilcox