http://www.doi.gov/whoweare/bobabbey.cfm
http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/blm-director-bob-abbey-making-exposure-to-radioactive-uranium-contamination-sound-%E2%80%9Cfriendly%E2%80%9D/
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BLM Director Bob Abbey & making exposure to radioactive uranium contamination sound “friendly”
August 8, 2010 by ppjg
By Debbie Coffey Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved.Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, who has been called “the godfather of Nevada’s casino-real estate-development nexus and hard rock mining,” nominated Bob Abbey to be the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
“Bob Abbey, for his efforts, was promoted in 2009 and became the national Director of the BLM. The issue regarding Abbey firing a whistleblower was not raised during his confirmation hearing. Then, Secretary Ken Salazar also named Abbey interim Director of the Minerals Management Service, “the scandal-ridden agency responsible for the oversight of offshore drilling,” to oversee the cleanup of BP’s Gulf oil spill. ”___________________________________
What did Bob Abbey do before he became Director of the BLM?Well for one thing, as the Nevada State Director of the BLM, Bob Abbey illegally fired Earle Dixon in 2004 for whistleblowing about radioactive uranium contamination from a mine in Nevada.
Earle Dixon, a mine hydrogeology specialist, was the Project Manager overseeing the cleanup of the Yerington Mine at the edge of Yerington in western Nevada. The Anaconda Copper Co. had mined and processed copper ore at this 3,500 acre site for more than 25 years. The site was bought by a subsidiary of BP (British Petroleum): ARCO (formerly called Atlantic Richfield). The cleanup included contaminated groundwater, metal-contaminated mine tailings and radioactive evaporation ponds. Dixon was trying to protect the health and safety of the cleanup workers and local residents, as well as make sure that the mine cleanup complied with the Toxic Substances Control Act, the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act, and other laws. Bob Abbey wrote a letter firing Dixon because he “alienated many of the groups that we, as an agency responsible for managing public lands, need to deal with in accomplishing our mission in an efficient and effective manner.”
Elyssa Rosen, executive director of Great Basin Mine Watch stated “it sure looks fishy when you fire the guy who was finding and publicizing the radioactivity.”
It is fishy. The “groups” Bob Abbey and the BLM are catering to and protecting are the mining companies responsible for contaminating untold amounts of water and depleting our aquifers. The “mission” the BLM is accomplishing is to make money selling our public assets, our water and our public lands.
http://www.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/year-1899/commerce
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Amalgamated Copper Company is founded in April by German-born New York entrepreneur Leonard Lewisohn, 51, and his younger brother Adolph, who last year erected the Raritan Copper Works at Perth Amboy, New Jersey. They have received backing for the $65 million concern from Standard Oil Company executives William Rockefeller and Henry Huddleston Rogers and from Brownsville, Texas-born New York banker James Stillman, 48, of National City Bank. Amalgamated buys the Anaconda mine at Butter, Montana, from Marcus Daly (see 1881). The deal creates a national scandal when it turns out that Standard Oil officers have made huge profits by selling public stock in the new company before the old owners were paid. Anaconda Company will be incorporated in 1911, and it will acquire Amalgamated in 1915.
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BIGGEST URANIUM MINE in the U.S. is being developed by Anaconda Copper on the Laguna Indian reservation in New Mexico. AEC says that Anaconda's Jackpile Mine is the first multimillion-ton deposit to be found in the U.S. Reserves are estimated at 5,000,000 tons or more.
http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/249/249.F2d.189.5610_1.html
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That pursuant to 3 of the Pueblo Lands Board Act an action was instituted by the United States in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico to quiet title of the Pueblo to the lands involved in the conflicts between the Paguate Purchase and the Cebolleta and Baca Grants, entitled United States v. Armijo, et al., No. 2080.
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That on July 20, 1931, upon stipulation of the parties a final decree was entered in No. 2080, which quieted the title against the United States and the Pueblo in favor of the owners of the Cebolleta Grant and 72 private claimants to 10,698.93 acres and quieted title in the Pueblo to 14,615.76 acres involved in the conflict.
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That on November 7, 1931, a decree was entered in No. 2080, quieting the title against the United States and the Pueblo in favor of the claimants under the Baca Grant to 2,527.29 acres and quieting the title in the Pueblo to 3,853.63 acres involved in the conflict between the Paguate Purchase and the Baca Grant.
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That the Pueblo is the owner, entitled to the exclusive possession of 51,578.19 acres of the original Paguate Purchase, being the area embraced in such purchase, less the 10,601.86 acres found by the Pueblo Lands Board to be a part of the Cubero Grant, 10,698.93 acres adjudged to the owners of the Cebolleta Grant and private claimants and 2,527.29 acres adjudged to the owners of the Baca Grant in No. 2080.3
http://www.miningwatch.ca/en/home/company/anaconda
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Report from the Workshop held in Ottawa, April 14-16, 2000. Prepared by MiningWatch Canada and the Canadian Consortium for International Social Development (CCISD).
http://www.miningwatch.ca/en/home/company/anaconda
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Anaconda
Laguna Pueblo Indian Reservation Case Study: Jackpile-Paguate Mine, New Mexico
Jan 08 2007For over 30 years, up until 1982, one of the world’s largest open pit uranium mines, the Jackpile-Paguate Mine, was operated on the Laguna Pueblo Indian Reservation in New Mexico. The mine has had a tremendous impact on the Pueblo: socially, economically, and environmentally. While the mine has been inactive for almost fifteen years, and the tribe is currently attempting to reclaim the land, the impact of the mine’s presence continue to reverberate through Laguna society.
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On the Ground Research: A Workshop to Identify the Research Needs of Communities Affected by Large-Scale Mining
Sep 01 2000Report from the Workshop held in Ottawa, April 14-16, 2000. Prepared by MiningWatch Canada and the Canadian Consortium for International Social Development (CCISD).