Sierra Club and IEN keep sucking people in…

Ya, they had me sucked in, too, until I saw firsthand how they worked on the peat mining issue... I guess it is live and learn... the Big Bog is being cleared and drained, millions of dollars has now been spent on a thirty mile road into this pristine bog (James Oberstar was the Chair of the House Transportation Committee and boasted to the media he had secured millions of dollars for the road--- building a road for heavy equipment to mine peat doesn't come cheap) so Berger Peat, a multinational outfit out of Quebec, can truck away the profits while the dirty oil of the tar sands flows through pipes just a couple miles away.

Here is info on the peat mining operation in the Big Bog:

http://pineislandstateforest.blogspot.com/

http://pineislandstateforest.blogspot.com/2006/12/racist-backroom-deal-brokered-by-united.html

http://pineislandstateforest.blogspot.com/2006/12/earth-day-2005-speech-by-alan-l-maki.html

If you check out "Google Earth" you can actually see the close proximity of the peat mining and Enbridge Pipeline projects; also in dispute is a huge power line project coming through the same area.

A few miles to the east a huge sulphide mining operation is being prepared... IEN and Sierra Club is running the same scam there... and, the same politicians had been involved... especially James Oberstar who devised a scheme to give the mining company public lands. Sulphide mining is one of the most environmentally destructive processes known to man.

The entire area we are talking about in Northern Minnesota has been the topic of a great deal of scientific study upon which our opposition to peat mining, the pipelines and power lines is based; those scientific studies are available in the book, "The Patterned Peatlands of Minnesota" (Wright and all). This are is one of the most pristine areas on the planet--- and one of the most environmentally sensitive ecosystems... so sensitive, I might add, that in the midst of all this destruction which could not be taking place except for the support given to it by the three Democrats we just defeated--- these same politicians spent millions of dollars to construct a "floating bog walk" one mile out into this pristine wilderness because human footprints would have destroyed this ecosystem where only several decades ago great herds of caribou roamed. Just some of the hypocrisy that takes place while corporate profits are enshrined and protected... remember, this Big Bog State Park and the expensive "floating bog walk) was created by the exact same politicians and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources that permitted peat mining, these oil pipelines and now high-voltage power lines in the Big Bog:

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/big_bog/index.html

I should point out that Canadian multi-nationals are involved with U.S. multinationals and British multi-nationals in all of these projects... ironically, the peat mining operation is now going to be increased in size because it has been found that peat can be turned into a product to "clean-up" oil spills!