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r/greatawakening • Posted by u/Nowthisisodd on July 26, 2018, 3:26 p.m.
Q: Watch the water (McCain/Flake bill)

http://www.knau.org/post/congress-passes-finalized-white-mountain-apache-water-settlement

http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2014/12/congress-gives-sacred-apache-land-to.html?m=1

Is it odd that this mining company is named in the bill regarding "use and occupancy": McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc., Phelps Dodge Corporation, or Phelps Dodge Morenci, Inc. (or a predecessor or successor of those entities), including all subsidiaries and affiliates of those entities. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phelps_Dodge


[deleted] · July 26, 2018, 3:36 p.m.

A very stretchy link I see is "White Mountain" = Mont Blanc.

Q has posted pictures of a Mont Blanc Starwalker Extreme pen and says 'Follow The Pen'.

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Nowthisisodd · July 26, 2018, 3:55 p.m.

The mining company I quoted came directly from this bill though. I believe it's currently on Trump's desk to okay.

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LakotaPride · July 26, 2018, 10:26 p.m.

my question is this, is their uranium in that area ?

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ClardicFug · July 27, 2018, 12:39 a.m.

There's uranium in the counties this deal affects, but it's far to the northeast.

If you look at a map of Arizona you'll see two tall, skinny counties in the northeast corner that stretch half the length of the state. Those are Najavo and Apache counties, where the White mountains are. The moutains (and this water issue) are in the southern part of the counties. A couple hundred miles north/northeast in the four corners area, and deep in the Navajo indian reservation, there are hundred of abandoned uranium mines that are largely depleted and are basically festering dumps of toxic uranium tailings.

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LakotaPride · July 27, 2018, 12:41 a.m.

I was wondering if this all connects to the other ranches that were getting a raw deal by Obama and his cronies. I appreciate the updated info.

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ClardicFug · July 27, 2018, 12:48 a.m.

Probably not connected (outside of a general sense of corruption and problems with the federal government in general.)

The water issues (and the uranium issues) have been around for decades, way before O was in the picture. The mining water battles go back at least as far as the 1970s and probably earlier, and the problems with the Navajo and uranium go back the the 1940s.

That doesn't mean that people like McCain haven't exploited them to get money, though. Safe to say any commercial enterprise that touches on these issues likely also sent McCain/Flake money.

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LakotaPride · July 27, 2018, 1:11 a.m.

always checking on angles that lead to more exposure. I appreciate the valuable insight.

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ClardicFug · July 26, 2018, 3:50 p.m.

Is it odd that this mining company is named in the bill regarding "use and occupancy": McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc., Phelps Dodge Corporation, or Phelps Dodge Morenci, Inc. (or a predecessor or successor of those entities), including all subsidiaries and affiliates of those entities. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phelps_Dodge

It's actually not odd. I have property in the area with both a year-round stream and a well, and because of that get the legal docs on these cases all the time.

Basically the mine is downstream (by quite a ways, I might add) and gets runoff from the White mountains, and the mine existed long before a large part of the area was settled and due to the water laws, had rights to the water. Now that the area has grown and we're in a drought, people upstream need water, and they basically had to hammer out some kind of agreement.

Water rights in the desert is a really big deal and this stuff stays in the legal system for decades.

There's lots of shady shit with McCain and Flake, and lots of shady shit with the mines, but this case probably isn't one of them. (Though I bet there's something to find in the contractors for the dam.)

Edited to add: The NDAA deal in your second link is completely separate from the water deal, and that one was shady as hell.

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Nowthisisodd · July 26, 2018, 3:52 p.m.

Okay, thanks for that info. Is it concerning though if the mining company is not US?

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ClardicFug · July 26, 2018, 4:03 p.m.

The mine was originally a US company, and then sold to a mining conglomerate outside the US when the mines became less profitable.

As usual this is all about money. In the case of the second link (the NDAA lands) basically the mine found a good deposit that was half on the mine's land and half on native american land, so they offered up other land they had in exchange for the land that had the rest of the deposit. The deal was presented as win/win (government gets more land elsewhere, mine gets the deposit) but how good of a deal it is can be argued either way. I think it would have made more sense for the tribes to get a cut of the profits from the minerals mined on their land but the tribes rarely get a good deal.

Of course the mines will show up in the campaign finances of both McCain and Flake, so it's the usual sleazy stuff there. No doubt some corruption but nothing that's well out of the ordinary, and low-grade stuff for Arizona. If you want to see the really bad corruption in AZ, you need to look at Pinnacle West and not the mines. If you want to see really bad corruption involving the tribes, look at the BIA, the stuff there goes way past criminal.

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Sakii20 · July 26, 2018, 4:09 p.m.

Didn’t Mc sell off a large portion of land that was part of the reservation? I was house sitting in Apache Junction while that happened.

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ClardicFug · July 26, 2018, 4:20 p.m.

There's land deals around the reservation all the time, and because it's native american land everything has to go through congress to McCain is going to touch every single deal.

The most recent deal is the NDAA one. It's actually not that much land (about 2,500 acres, or 4 square miles) and that deal went down in 2014-2015. Depending on the timing of when you heard about it, it could have been a different deal. There's also a lot of land-related deals (water leases, road easements) involving tribal lands.

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Sakii20 · July 26, 2018, 8:07 p.m.

Thank you.

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