One of the things I have been promoting, if we are serious about, is that those mining companies that have those horrendous human, environmental, and labor abuses, and are doing businesses in other parts of the world, wouldn't it be prudent for the United States to ban them from doing business on our public lands and waters, as a consequence to those practices, as a deterrent to those practices, as an incentive to stop those practices?
Grijalva advocates banning mining companies with poor practices from U.S. public lands.
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The bill gives anyone the ability to stake a mining claim, whether there are valuable minerals on the land or not.
You are hearing that correctly. Any American, or notably, any American subsidiary of a foreign company could have the exclusive rights to our public lands for about $10 per acre per year.
Fractionated land makes land use planning extremely difficult, cumbersome, and often impractical.
To me, the people, the first people of this country, the Native Americans, we are second-class citizens still.
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