Here and Now - Resolution Copper Mine, H1 N1 Virus

I have been to almost every dog & pony show put on by Resolution Copper for more than 3 years.
There are signs around the town of Superior stating they want outsiders to stay out of their business YET, they have courted ALL the neighboring towns and many other towns/cities around Arizona as well as our Governor and state legislators in supporting this mine.
Resolution Copper lets their workers out of work and has even had their supporters bus people from the Globe/Miami area so that it will look like there are more supporters than non-supporters at these events.
So much for outsiders staying out of Superior's business.
David Salisbury, Superior's Mayor & now John McCain have allowed the heckling & jeering of non-supporters to go on at these productions in order to intimidate the local people who do not support them.
Intimidation is standard practice for the parents (Rio Tinto & BHP Billiton) of this company outside of the U.S. but it should not be tolerated in America.
EVERYONE needs to know that this is PUBLIC PROTECTED (since the 50's) U.S. FOREST SERVICE LAND THAT BELONGS TO ALL AMERICANS NOT JUST A FEW!
And as American citizens we have a right to ask that NEPA be completed BEFORE the land swap is a done deal and not afterwards when the horse is out of the barn and it is too late.
Let's get the answers to our many many questions and the REAL facts first, then mining can come later.
This mine with it's huge yearly water usage (maybe as much as the city of Tempe's yearly water usage) will affect ALL Arizonans especially during these years of drought.

No doubt there are many important facets to the mining company's proposal and the impacts and affects are far reaching. With respect to the recreational rock climbing topic:

Mr. Salisbury,

How does the privatization and ultimate destruction of over 2,000 acres of public recreation lands representing thousands of acres of difficult to come by easily accessible public climbing terrain in exchange for only 95 acres of similarly accessibe lands serve the public's interest in this regard?

At this point this legislative land swap represents a 95% loss to the climbing community's interest. (or worse if the USDA's stance to remove that 95 acres and the Apache Leap management area from the legislation and lack of perpetual, permanent reasonable access and roads to many impacted areas is taken into account)

I would like to share with your listeners, the outcome of last springs council election in Superior, the voters made their voice very clear by electing me and one other member to the town council, under the platform of supporting and moving the Resolution Copper Mine project forward.

In fact the whole copper corridor of communities and their elected officials support this project.

The overwhelming majority of our hard working citizens of Superior understand the economic benefits that this project will have on our community, its schools, and vital local high-tech job opportunities for our children.

Hank Gutierrez
Counciel Member
Town of Superior

Dr. Weil on Larry King said that he would not be taking the vaccine. Dr. Bob Martin also said he was counseling members of his family not to take the H1N1 vaccine. I am taking 1000 iu of vitamin D3 a day and washing my hands and perhaps even more importantly making an effort not to touch my face during the day. I don't want to take any vaccine that contains mercury. My young nieces and nephews aren't going to get the vaccine either.

I am 24 years old and my room mate is at ASU, but I am not. He will be able to get the vaccine at school, but I cannot access ASU health care anymore. I am very concerned that I will not be able to get the vaccine through my PCP. When will it be available to people in the Young Adult age group?

First of all....
I do believe that this copper can be mined without the land exchange.... (Plan B)
Also, if you inquire about the percentage of RCC employee's that acutally work in Superior, you will get about 2%. How does that help the town? Superior has paid her dues in mining. This is a Beautiful part of Arizona that should be protected. Not only for the Rock Climbers, or the folks that 4-wheel in the area, or the campers, or the boy scouts, or the yearly Easter picnic's, or the endangered life, or the water issue, or the Apache traditions, or the historical artifacts, or the amazing rock formations that would crumble to nothing... Not even for that place in my heart that would be empty for the loss of it. No it's simple. If we keep destroying the best places on earth. We wont have them anymore.... I know we need copper, but at what cost? Do we destroy something wonderful that will last for thousands of years all for hasty greed that will last for maybe 40 if we are lucky? RCC is not even an American Company and they come with additional foreign hands all grabbing with gross enthusiasm. Hey, here's a good idea... Let's take a look at the 1872 Mining Reform Law???? Duhhh!
I was born and raised in Superior, I was lead to believe that some of the people on our council was leaning to a neutral state on this Land Exchange and that Superiors best interest was what was at stake, guess I was wrong for $ome reason????. If the Beauty of this place is destroyed, then what do we have that makes us so eternally special?
Think about the loss, the real loss... All of it including the water, the history, the Beauty, the recreation, the tradition, the human right to protected nature and so much more for the really long haul.
Thank You
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Anna
Superior, AZ

Mining is essential to the security and prosperity of our nation. If we don’t produce raw materials, we have to import them. We’re already importing 100% of many minerals we need and over 50% of at least 44 others, including many “strategic” metals. Exporting nations have used our dependence on their raw materials to achieve political and economic ends that are often not favorable to us. OPEC, the oil cartel, is a good example. CIPEC, a copper cartel of the 1970s, tried to control copper prices but failed, largely because the US produced almost all it needed.

Everything that we use comes from the earth in one form or another. We get minerals by mining them, but only about 0.2% of the land in Arizona has been disturbed by mining from Spanish times to today, about 20% covered by the Phoenix urban area. The mines employ many of our citizens. The minerals extracted helped to build the state and nation, and to win two world wars and numerous other conflicts.

Regarding opposition to the Resolution Copper project, it would be a lot more credible if the some of the groups involved weren’t in the habit of opposing every mining project. I know of no recent large mining project in Arizona that hasn’t been opposed on some “environmental” pretext.

Mining, like manufacturing, creates real wealth as opposed to “economic activity” created in the sales, health care, legal and other sectors of the economy. By driving our mining and manufacturing industries out of the country, we are in danger of becoming a nation whose economic activity consists of selling Chinese goods to each other and taking in each other’s laundry. I can’t believe that Americans want that for our children and grandchildren.