I mean really....drilling for Copper on sacred land by a Foreign Corporation
"...Year after year the bills failed to pass. But in December, the legislation was was quietly passed into law as part of the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act. Arizona Sen. John McCain, who has long championed the deal, said the land exchange would “maintain the strength of the most technologically advanced military in the world” since copper is the second-most-utilized mineral by the Department of Defense...."
I'm not going to write out a long drawn out diary about how foul
this is...but I saw no one was talking about it and just wanted to bring attention to it.
As someone who has lived in Arizona and visited the reservations, it annoys me when I see things like this....
Crap like this is not supposed to happen during a supposedly Progressive Administration...it just isn't.
President Obama signed the defense bill into law in mid-December, but the San Carlos Apaches say they haven’t given up yet. Tribal members organized a two-day protest march to draw attention to their cause, walking 44 miles along the highway from the reservation to Oak Flat.
America Tonight also made multiple attempts to reach the Arizona congressional delegation that advocated for the land swap: Republican Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake, and Rep. Paul Gosar plus Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick. All declined to comment or did not respond.
“At the end of the day I think the American people are getting short-changed badly. They are going to lose an exquisite, beautiful piece of landscape that belongs to them,” said Wood. “And yet a foreign-owned company is going to manage to make billions of dollars of profit off of resources that belong to the entire American public, and that’s the ultimate description of what happened here.”
Hopefully somehow, someway this can be stopped. However, with a Republican majority in the House and the Senate I won't hold my breath.