by Shannon Poe | Jan 13, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
Our friends at Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) have just announced that the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) will hear their case on the Waters of the United States. PLF has an impeccable record with cases at our Supreme Court and we are excited they are...
by Shannon Poe | Jan 12, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
There is much dispute over whether or not Mr. Obama should have designated millions and millions of acres of public lands as National Monuments. Much of this was done without the majority of public support, but based on his ideology. Trump “Open” To...
by Shannon Poe | Jan 11, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation
Critical small mining bill proposed in Washington State Urgent action required Washington State Democrats have reintroduced yet another bill to put a moratorium (ban) on small mining (dredging) in the state. House bill 1077 would impose over-regulation on suction...
by Shannon Poe | Jan 6, 2017 | News & Events
Endangered Species Act: Conservation or assault on property rights? This is an excellent article explaining exactly how the enviro groups, and our own government is literally driving people from their own lands. For the entire article,...
by Shannon Poe | Jan 5, 2017 | News & Events
Last week, in one of his final moves out of the Oval Office, Obama executively designated more than 1.5 million acres of land as national monuments, preserving their untouched façade while closing them to human expansion, development, energy use, ranching or state or...
by Shannon Poe | Jan 4, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
Several of you have asked if we are attending the CA Water Board meetings coming up. Yes, we are and have posted several times that we will be there. The first one is in Fresno on Jan 17th. WMA, Western Mining Alliance will also be there and Craig and I are on the...
by Shannon Poe | Dec 30, 2016 | All About Mining, News & Events
“I have worked on EPA science controversies for 25 years,” Milloy told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “EPA doesn’t use science so much as it abuses it for its political ends.” We have been talking about how the EPA is (in our opinion) the single most dangerous...
by Shannon Poe | Dec 29, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation
In the last remaining few weeks of the Obama Administration, we are witnessing a massive “taking” of public lands. This is one of those takings… Thank you Brad Jones for the information. Department of the Interior Seal U.S. Department of Agriculture...
by Shannon Poe | Dec 27, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
An excerpt from this article states “A president has never before rescinded a previous monument designation, although in a few instances, presidents have shrunk the boundaries of a previous president’s proclamations” Just because it has not been done, does...
by Shannon Poe | Dec 26, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
Mr. Trump is expected to have a deep impact on mining in general, but should have a positive impact on the stunning over-regulation us small miners have seen. Mr. Trump, please put us small miners back to work, it’s been 8 years of what can only be described as...
