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?

~~BEAR ESSENTIALS: Sept 8, 2018~~

Read more about the History of Uranium and Energy Fuels:

Blue Mountain Shadows has published 3 issues

Contact Heather: 

News in the West

n  Free Range Interviews Logan Shumway Regarding Energy Fuels

n  Three Days to Get Support Letters in for Energy Fuels; Due 9-10-18

1--Via email at uranium232@bis.doc.gov;

2--     Through the link https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=BIS-2018-0011 (click the “Comment Now!” box), or

3--    By U.S. mail to Michael Vaccaro, Acting Director, Office of Technology Evaluation, Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Room 1093, Washington, DC 20230.

If you need ideas, or talking points: Follow this link:

n  Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Hearings: KUER

n  Pros and Cons of Lake Powell Pipeline

n  USU Study Shows Large National Parks Neither Hurt nor Help Rural Economies

n  Creating the NEW Rural Utah:  USU Magazine, p. 32 Fall 2018

n  Down-sized Bears Ears NM to have 15 Member Advisory Board

n  To Make Nominations Go Here

n  Alternatives to Overcrowding in National Parks: A Libertarian’s View

n  St. George Initiates: Give Land a Hand  A great Idea!

n  San Juan ATV Safari Coming Sept 13-15, 2018. Register online at sanjuansafari.com

n  Corruption and Cronyism Marks William Woody’s BLM Career

n  Obama Lambasts Trump

n  Ranching in San Juan County Attacked by Sierra Club

n  Huffington Post Still Huffing about Bears Ears Reduction: Jim Carlson Called Out:  (One of our consistent allies in the early days the of battle)

n  Guardian Complains about Mineral Development--Again

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n Read Past Editions of Bear Essentials at: http://beyondthebears.blogspot.com/

Documenting Bears Ears Controversy and Public Land Issues since July 2016

                                                                                                  

~~BEAR ESSENTIALS: May 11, 2018~~

v Dr. Mike Kennedy, candidate for Utah senator will be in Monticello May 22,

   7 PM at the Hideout.  Get your questions ready.

v Phil Lyman: Updates on Campaign and Causes Plus inspiring words!

v Future of Bears Ears Explored by PBS

v Willie Greyeyes Considered “non-resident” of San Juan    Fox News

v SL Tribune’s Take on Willie Greyeye’s Utah Residency

v SJC and San Juan Record to Host Journalism Students from USC

          Open house May 15 at Monticello Discovery Center 7 PM

v Yet Another Reporter Comes to San Juan To Stake a Claim!

“Approximately one-third of the acres removed from Bears Ears are wilderness or wilderness study areas and remain off-limits to claims. Finding a parcel that was previously part of Bears Ears, did not have an active claim and was not otherwise restricted to mining proved to be a bit of a challenge.” . . . In 2017, an estimated $75.2 billion worth of minerals were produced in the U.S. — up 6 percent from the previous year. And the Trump administration has prioritized boosting domestic production of minerals it has identified as “critical” to the economic and national security. A draft list of 35 minerals includes both uranium and vanadium, a malleable metal also found in the White Canyon area of southeastern Utah.”

n  Trump Administration & Congress Defend Mining on Federal Lands

“Despite the vital importance of minerals, the previous Administration took dozens of anti-mining actions which, if left in place, will stifle job creation, decimate local economies and disrupt public education funding streams. This overreach locked up millions of acres of Federal lands under false pretenses and harmed our nation’s domestic mineral supply…”

n  Recapture Canyon Road Was Never Under Federal Jurisdiction

n  Proposed Railway Would Haul Freight between Unitah Basin & Craig, Co.

n  Impact of Judge Shelby’s New Voting Districts on Blanding

n Epic Mistake Impacted Manufacturing Jobs In USA

n Chilcoat Felony Trial Moved to Price, Ut,  May 23

n  The Hammond Plot Thickens: Was Uranium on Malheur land the real reason for prosecution of ranchers?

Peter Thiel—the founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook, is also an investor in carbon neutral nuclear production and the future of mining uranium. His new startup company is called Helion Energy.

n Colorado Woman’s Mineral Research Discredited by Former Administration/ Nobel Prize Affected

“Through the years, Wenrich searched for uranium deposits in northern Arizona, which, says the U.S. Geological Survey, has “the highest uranium potential in the country.” After spending $100,000, she staked 71 mining claims with joint interest in another 94 claims. In fact, she had a $200,000 agreement to sell 61 of the claims. Yet, in 2012, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar closed more than a million acres of federal lands from mining, blocking her from selling the 61 claims, developing her other claims, or exploring for more uranium resources.”

n  The Coup d’état Over Idaho Land -- Goal: Identifying species and habitat for corridors which can be used to place large tracts of land into conservation for connectivity to other protected areas, convincing private land owners to place their land into conservation easements, buying land through NGOs and the federal government, erasing jurisdictional boundaries between counties, states, and countries, and creating a regional environmental governance.  This CSP graphic gives a visual picture of just a few groups who are involved in controlling public land use. 

              (San Juan County is also impacted by many of these:)

n Why would we ask our US Representative to Support Industrial Strength Tourism? 

n Protest March on White Mesa Mill planned for May 19

             Other Articles/ Events of Local Interest             

v Salt Lake Tribune Faces Cuts Due to Reduced Circulation

v Ute Tribes File Lawsuit Over Mismanagement of Tribal Lands

v Jurassic National Monument in Emery County?

http://beyondthebears.blogspot.com/

            Documenting Bears Ears “No Monument” efforts since July 2016