Mining Reform "Stalled"; Solons Unhappy

According to an article in yesterday's Las Vegas Review-Journal, a collectivist-environmentalist claque of ten anti-mining U. S. Senators (which includes Washington's own Maria Cantwell) has sent a missive to the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in an apparent effort to stimulate creation of a Senate version of mining reform legislation similar to the bill (H.R. 2262) passed by the House of Representatives last November. According to the newspaper, the House bill is quite "dead" in the Senate, if not quite buried, and the afore-mentioned solons are most unhappy that their efforts at "mining reform" seem "stalled."

There is some indication in the story that saner heads may prevail in the drafting of a Senate bill.

You can read the article for yourself by clicking on the link above.

We shall see in due course how this all pans out.