[84] in peace2
Auctioning off federal lands
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Mui)
Tue Feb 22 11:45:04 2000
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:44:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Simon Mui <simsays@MIT.EDU>
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More disturbing possibilities to be aware of...
-Simon
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>GEORGE BUSH'S ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISOR: "AUCTION OFF ALL FEDERAL LANDS
>INCLUDING NATIONAL PARKS"
>
>Environmental Conservation Organization, 2/20/00
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>Terry L. Anderson, environmental advisor to George W. Bush Jr., has
>proposed to auction off all 600 million acres of federal public lands
>in the U.S. over the next 20-40 years. This not only incudes every
>National Forest, National Wildlife Refuge, and BLM District, it also
>includes every National Park and Monument. Under his proposal, non-profit
>environmental groups could bid on the free market against the likes of
>Exxon to obtain the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or against
>Weyerhouser to obtain Yellowstone National Park, or against Phelps Dodge
>to obtain Grand Canyon National Park. Any bets on how the bidding will go?
>
>Anderson is closely associated with several conservative think tanks
>pushing for the privatization and/or commercialization of public lands.
>He is the director of the Political Economy Research Center, a senior
>fellow at the Hoover Institution. PERC's website links to the Thoreau
>Institute which has proposed, among other nonsense, to privatize ownership
>of endangered species. Anderson's proposal was published by the CATO
>institute and can be viewed at <http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-363es.html>
>
>Anderson freely admits that his corporate take-over agenda would be
>wildly unpopular with the American public. In an interview with the
>National Journal (10-23-99) he said that Bush is watching the polls and
>will not likely announce any radical public land agendas during the
>campaign. But after????
>
