Fed taking over lands

[Mark K]

Is there any sort of law that requires the government to allow private enterprise to do the mining?

I ask because in the daily course of getting screwed by the state, I ponder ways to fight back and prevent the trip into the abyss.

It occurred to me that if the BLM is able to take over enough land and forbid use as well, that the feds may take over ownership of the minerals instead of the people. This would lead to only the government mining and all people would be at the mercy of the feds if they want to have metals or other minerals.

I am not really doing a very good job of explaining what I am thinking, but maybe you get it.

[Deleted]

Yes, there is constitutional requirements prohibiting government from competing in the private sector.

I am not a lawyer. Nor do I play one on TV, so cannot offer you statute to research.

Amtrak, NASA, USPS are examples of exceptions that have survived constitutional challenge. So if UsPS can compete with FedEx/UPS then so can Gov-mine.

[QuailRiver]

Sept 5, 2016 23:26:58 GMT -5 Mark K said:

Is there any sort of law that requires the government to allow private enterprise to do the mining?

I ask because in the daily course of getting screwed by the state, I ponder ways to fight back and prevent the trip into the abyss.

It occurred to me that if the BLM is able to take over enough land and forbid use as well, that the feds may take over ownership of the minerals instead of the people. This would lead to only the government mining and all people would be at the mercy of the feds if they want to have metals or other minerals.

I am not really doing a very good job of explaining what I am thinking, but maybe you get it.

Control of important mineral resources is the true intent of the last half-century-plus of Federal land grabs. The D.C elite never really cared about endangered field mice and desert tortoises. So it's no coincidence that the Feds want control of the land that contains most of the county's untapped coal reserves, oil shale reserves, and deposits of uranium (nuclear reactor fuel, weapons and medical applications), thorium (replacement for uranium as a nuclear reactor fuel), vanadium (used in nuclear power plants, as an additive to steel, and used in the treatment of diabetes, high-blood pressure, and heart disease), and helium (Helium is used in micro-chip and fiber optic production. Helium-3 is used to cool nuclear reactors and helium-4 has very important medical uses treating diseases, also in cryostats is used to freeze tissue during surgery, plus is also used to cool MRI machines).

The first map shown at the top left corner below shows Federally controlled surface and subsurface lands and was printed 3/3/05. So this map doesn't even reflect the massive addition of 260,000,000 acres that the Obama administration has added to the total. But compare that 2005 map to the maps of important mineral deposits shown on the following maps.



Larry C.

[Mark K]

So I guess I was right.

[Peruano]

Andy Rooney made a living by saying something ludicrous and then spending 10 minutes arguing against it. Go figure why some folks do that.