Yes, indeed they do. If the British get their way, you may soon trip over uranium mines on your future trips to the Grand Canyon.
First off, this story has pretty much been ignored by the US media, which is too busy flailing around over who listens to what pastor.
Second, the comment within the story is dead-on: Let's sink a coal mine into Stonehenge and see how the Brits like that.
We will defile every place on this planet for a few pennies. I'm not prefacing that with "it seems that," for it is clearly a self-evident truth.
Mother Nature must be ruing missing her chance.
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Uhm, no, there is not going to be any mining within Grand Canyon National Park. That would be illegal. The mining is in national forest areas over 100 miles away from the Grand Canyon. It's barely even in the same neighborhood, and is mostly about as scenic as a sand pit, being high desert and all.
Not that this will stop radical environmentalists from claiming that it's "in the Grand Canyon"... their ultimate goal is the death of most of humanity, which they view as a blight upon the Earth that needs to be exterminated (See: Rifkin, Jeremy). Themselves excluded, of course, because they are the virtuous ones who will somehow avoid the Great Die-Off that they want to have happen...
Hey, it was in a Murdoch rag, so anything that remotely resembles a pro-environment story has to be understating the facts, or so I assumed.
This is an area I'm interested in (mining in the desert Southwest), and I've actually looked at the areas proposed to be mined on the maps since I first heard about this proposal a few months ago on a forum oriented around the desert Southwest. I decided not to cover the story at the time because there's not any "there" there. It's "near" the Grand Canyon only in that if you drive for two hours from there, you can get to the Grand Canyon.
Yes, it appeared in a Murdoch rag. But one thing to remember: Murdoch is about profit first and foremost. And creating controversies where there isn't one is profitable, because it gets people reading his rags. In this case, a fringe environmentalist group whined about mining claims in the national forest (*not* in the national park, that would be illegal), and Murdoch's rag picked up on it because, well, it makes a good sensationalistic story for one of his tabloids. So it goes. You got as much truth from reading Pravda or Izvestia back during Soviet days as you get from today's corporate press -- i.e., not a fucking whole lot.
- Badtux the Southwestern Desert Penguin
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