No. AZ Uranium Ban Based On Bogus "Science"

Human Events, Audrey Hudson, June 4, 2012
Obama administration officials banned mining across one million acres of the most uranium rich land in the United States for 20 years using questionable science to back up their claims that uranium production would adversely affect the environment.

(Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar)

The new documents released by the House Natural Resources Committee show findings by some National Park Service scientists back up the lawmakers’ concerns. One internal email written by a hydrologist said the environmental study “goes to great lengths in an attempt to establish impacts to water resources from uranium mining.”

“It fails to do so, but instead creates enough confusion and obfuscation of hydrologic principles to create the illusion that there could be adverse impacts if uranium mining occurred,” the hydrologist said.

Another park service official wrote that this is a case “where the hard science doesn’t strongly support a policy position.”

Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT), who chairs the Natural Resources subcommittee on national parks, forests and public lands, says the initial documents they obtained show alarming new evidence that the administration lacked scientific justification to impose the ban.

“It is now increasingly apparent that the decision was motivated by politics rather than science as the administration would have us believe,” Bishop said. “These emails illustrate that Secretary Salazar blatantly ignored the scientific analysis in order to advance the administration’s narrow-minded political agenda. The administration is working hard to protect certain interests, but just not those of the American people,” Bishop said.  (Read more . . .).

Fringe "environmentalism" attacking the right to use our lands and abundant natural resources is an attack on energy.  Energy is the life-blood of society.  These attacks on energy, with which we are blessed in abundance, are attacks on light, and heat, and health, and safety, and jobs, and production, and the economy . . . and life.