Well, well. Not my favorite source, but it will do for the moment. Anyone surprised that Dirty Harry might be behind the curtain on this? More of the Democrat machine at work.....
"The Bureau of Land Management, whose director was Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) former senior adviser, has purged documents from its web site stating that the agency wants Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle off of the land his family has worked for over 140 years in order to make way for solar panel power stations."
Hmmm, do you suppose that this solar company might have some tie-in with Nancy Pelosi's brother-in-law's Nevada solar company? This promises to get more interesting.
http://www.infowars.com/breaking-sen-harry-reid-behind-blm-land-grab-of-bundy-ranch/
Best buddies: Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid with Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Qishan
during what the Washington Post called a “secret, week-long trip to China” in 2011.
by Gina Cassini | Top Right News
Website FreeRepublic Exposes BLM “document dump” that suggests attempted cover-up of Sen. Reid/Chinese gov’t takeover of ranch for solar farm.
The Bureau of Land Management, whose director was Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) former senior adviser, has purged documents from its web site stating that the agency wants Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle off of the land his family has worked for over 140 years in order to make way for solar panel power stations.
The first segment of the document pulled by the feds from BLM.gov.
Deleted from BLM.gov but reposted for posterity by Free Republic, the BLM document entitled “Cattle Trespass Impacts” directly states that Bundy’s cattle “impacts” solar development, more specifically the construction of “utility-scale solar power generation facilities” on “public lands.”
“Non-Governmental Organizations have expressed concern that the regional mitigation strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone utilizes Gold Butte as the location for offsite mitigation for impacts from solar development, and that those restoration activities are not durable with the presence of trespass cattle,” the document states.
The second segment of the document pulled by the feds from BLM.gov.
Another BLM report entitled Regional Mitigation Strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone (BLM Technical Note 444) reveals that Bundy’s land in question is within the “Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone and surrounding area” which is part of a broad U.S. Department of Energy program for “Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States” on land “managed” by BLM.
“In 2012, the BLM and the U.S. Department of Energy published the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States,” the report reads. “The Final Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement assessed the impact of utility-scale solar energy development on public lands in the six southwestern states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah.”
Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone and surrounding area (Click to enlarge.)
“The Approved Resource Management Plan Amendments/Record of Decision (ROD) for Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States implemented a comprehensive solar energy program for public lands in those states and incorporated land use allocations and programmatic and SEZ-specific design features into land use plans in the six-state study area.”
Back in 2012, the New American reported that Harry Reid’s son, Rory Reid, was the chief representative for a Chinese energy firm planning to build a $5-billion solar plant on public land in Laughlin, Nevada.
And journalist Marcus Stern with Reuters also reported that Sen. Reid was heavily involved in the deal as well.
“[Reid] and his oldest son, Rory, are both involved in an effort by a Chinese energy giant, ENN Energy Group, to build a $5 billion solar farm and panel manufacturing plant in the southern Nevada desert,” he wrote. “Reid has been one of the project’s most prominent advocates, helping recruit the company during a 2011 trip to China and applying his political muscle on behalf of the project in Nevada.”
“His son, a lawyer with a prominent Las Vegas firm that is representing ENN, helped it locate a 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) desert site that it is buying well below appraised value from Clark County, where Rory Reid formerly chaired the county commission.”
Although these reports are in plain view, the mainstream media has so far ignored this link.
The BLM’s official reason for encircling the Bundy family with sniper teams and helicopters was to protect the endangered desert tortoise, which the agency has previously been killing in mass due to “budget constraints.”
“A tortoise isn’t the reason why BLM is harassing a 67 year-old rancher; they want his land,” journalist Dana Loesch wrote. “The tortoise wasn’t of concern when [U.S. Senator] Harry Reid worked with BLM to literally change the boundaries of the tortoise’s habitat to accommodate the development of his top donor, Harvey Whittemore.”
“Reid is accused of using the new BLM chief as a puppet to control Nevada land (already over 84% of which is owned by the federal government) and pay back special interests,” she added. “BLM has proven that they’ve a situational concern for the desert tortoise as they’ve had no problem waiving their rules concerning wind or solar power development. Clearly these developments have vastly affected a tortoise habitat more than a century-old, quasi-homesteading grazing area.”
“If only Clive Bundy were a big Reid donor.”
Kudos to FreeRepublic, and Jim Robinson, the conservative legend who runs it, for doing Americans this service. The BLM can run, but it can’t hide.
Heathen Mormon? Teabagger? Sorry Hank, no Tea Party affiliation here. I just like to look at both sides of a situation and try and understand it rather than condemning things that I know little or nothing about. The only thing that you are shooting is your feet. When you can take the exact same hate speech and simply interchange the noun, it's time to take a long look at yourself. Face it - you've become the narrow-minded cracker that you always despised.
Gee, I wonder how Bundy feels about the law that he is breaking......
What total BS this story is....
All this rancher had to do was pay the fee , which it turns out was only about $1.35 a cow per year.
That's right, this only became a situation because this idiot of a farmer
was too stupid and cheap to pay $1,350 per year approximately for
1,000 head of cattle. A ridiculously low fee for using thousands of acres that was not his.
Absurd that even one person is defending this idiot, anyone should be embarrassed for defending such blatant stupidity.
Our government certainly deserves criticism but not even one bit in this case. The fees were extremely low, easily recouped and the idiotic farmer is not being "forced" off the land - it was his stupidity in not paying such minimal fees for 20 years. In any business there are expenses, 1-2 cows a year would have paid for unlimited use of thousands of acres which fed these cattle - the cost of feed on smaller land would far, far exceed the paltry $1,350 per year.
What total BS this story is....
All this rancher had to do was pay the fee , which it turns out was only about $1.35 a cow per year.
That's right, this only became a situation because this idiot of a farmer
was too stupid and cheap to pay $1,350 per year approximately for
1,000 head of cattle. A ridiculously low fee for using thousands of acres that was not his.
Absurd that even one person is defending this idiot, anyone should be embarrassed for defending such blatant stupidity.
Our government certainly deserves criticism but not even one bit in this case. The fees were extremely low, easily recouped and the idiotic farmer is not being "forced" off the land - it was his stupidity in not paying such minimal fees for 20 years. In any business there are expenses, 1-2 cows a year would have paid for unlimited use of thousands of acres which fed these cattle - the cost of feed on smaller land would far, far exceed the paltry $1,350 per year.
You retards.he dist pay because they said he couldn't graze. He didn't just wake up one day and say hey I'm it paying. They said you can only graze on this postage stamp so he said FU and stooped paying.
Once again know one has called you anything. Please read more closely. The only thing I call you is wrong.![]()
All this rancher had to do was pay the fee , which it turns out was only about $1.35 a cow per year.