"I am going to surround myself only with the best people": Zinke caught red-handed trying to sell off public lands
Aug 21, 2018 21:20:32 #
The Interior secretary has pledged on several occasions that he opposes the sale or t***sfer of public lands to private entities. At his confirmation hearing in January 2017, Zinke said: “I am absolutely against t***sfer or sale of public land.”
In a March 3, 2017 speech, only days after getting sworn in as secretary, Zinke promised Interior staffers: “You can hear it from my lips. We will not sell or t***sfer public land.”
Just last December, Zinke reiterated this pledge. “There’s not one square inch, not one square inch, of land that is removed from federal protection,” Zinke told Fox Business.
But then last Wednesday, the Trump administration released its management plans for the much smaller Grand Staircase and Bears Ears national monuments — prepared by the B*M and the U.S. Forest Service — that placed a priority on energy development and included the plan to sell off the 1,610 acres of public lands.
he plans cover the 880,000 acres carved out by Trump from Grand Staircase and the 200,000 acres remaining in Bears Ears from its original 1.35 million acres.
Either Zinke had a change of heart about selling off public lands or does not have a clear understanding of what his agency is doing.
“Does Secretary Zinke have any idea what’s going on inside the Interior Department? He was caught red-handed trying to sell off our public lands to his political supporters,” Jennifer Rokala, executive director of the Center for Western Priorities, said Friday in a statement. “It’s only after two days of terrible news stories that he is now changing direction.”
In December, Trump announced the largest-ever reduction of a national monument in the nation’s history, shrinking Bears Ears by some 1.1 million acres, or nearly 85 percent. Trump also announced that he would be reducing Grand Staircase to nearly half its original size.
“The attempt was more than just Zinke’s dirty scheme to illegally sell off public lands, as some of the land slated for sale is adjacent to land owned by an avid Trump supporter and a current Republican lawmaker in Utah,” the Sierra Club said Friday in a statement.
Coincidence?
One parcel of the public land that the B*M proposed selling was a 120-acre property that sits adjacent to 40 acres owned by Utah state Rep. Mike Noel (R) and which were removed from the monument.
Noel applauded Trump’s decision to shrink the size of the Grand Escalante monument. He unsuccessfully attempted to rename a Utah highway after Trump to thank the president for the executive order, HuffPost reported last week.
In a March 3, 2017 speech, only days after getting sworn in as secretary, Zinke promised Interior staffers: “You can hear it from my lips. We will not sell or t***sfer public land.”
Just last December, Zinke reiterated this pledge. “There’s not one square inch, not one square inch, of land that is removed from federal protection,” Zinke told Fox Business.
But then last Wednesday, the Trump administration released its management plans for the much smaller Grand Staircase and Bears Ears national monuments — prepared by the B*M and the U.S. Forest Service — that placed a priority on energy development and included the plan to sell off the 1,610 acres of public lands.
he plans cover the 880,000 acres carved out by Trump from Grand Staircase and the 200,000 acres remaining in Bears Ears from its original 1.35 million acres.
Either Zinke had a change of heart about selling off public lands or does not have a clear understanding of what his agency is doing.
“Does Secretary Zinke have any idea what’s going on inside the Interior Department? He was caught red-handed trying to sell off our public lands to his political supporters,” Jennifer Rokala, executive director of the Center for Western Priorities, said Friday in a statement. “It’s only after two days of terrible news stories that he is now changing direction.”
In December, Trump announced the largest-ever reduction of a national monument in the nation’s history, shrinking Bears Ears by some 1.1 million acres, or nearly 85 percent. Trump also announced that he would be reducing Grand Staircase to nearly half its original size.
“The attempt was more than just Zinke’s dirty scheme to illegally sell off public lands, as some of the land slated for sale is adjacent to land owned by an avid Trump supporter and a current Republican lawmaker in Utah,” the Sierra Club said Friday in a statement.
Coincidence?
One parcel of the public land that the B*M proposed selling was a 120-acre property that sits adjacent to 40 acres owned by Utah state Rep. Mike Noel (R) and which were removed from the monument.
Noel applauded Trump’s decision to shrink the size of the Grand Escalante monument. He unsuccessfully attempted to rename a Utah highway after Trump to thank the president for the executive order, HuffPost reported last week.
Aug 21, 2018 21:28:53 #
Crayons
Loc: St Jo, Texas
rumitoid wrote:
The Interior secretary has pledged on several occa... (show quote)
2017? more out of context copy paste democrat/weather underground marxist media lies. git lost sunshine
Aug 23, 2018 19:56:05 #
Crayons wrote:
2017? more out of context copy paste democrat/weather underground marxist media lies. git lost sunshine
If you are concerned about the t***h, look it up yourself. But if you are only concerned with insulting liberals over the safety of our country, rock on.
Aug 23, 2018 20:01:41 #
Crayons wrote:
2017? more out of context copy paste democrat/weather underground marxist media lies. git lost sunshine
Why or how can you call things that are or have happened marxist media lies, don't you follow realities of what's taking place?
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