Comments on: Message From Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick https://sedonaeye.com/message-from-rep-ann-kirkpatrick/ Local News From All Points of View Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:26:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Sylvia Barrett https://sedonaeye.com/message-from-rep-ann-kirkpatrick/comment-page-1/#comment-714 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:26:09 +0000 https://sedonaeye.com/?p=2249#comment-714 Kirkpatrick can’t seem to get bill # HR 2509 (S.E. Az Land Exchange) which she introduced pushed thoiugh Congress so she now has to keep touting it as the “Copper Basin Jobs Project”…What a joke!
This project will bring approx. 400 permanent jobs in approx. 10 years after the mine gets going.
How many actual MEN will this “block cave” mine require? Not very many since the mining will be done robotically.
It is disengenious of her to hold hope out to people in that area. All mines have slowed or cut production during these times. The price of copper has remained fairly stable…and mining companies have still laid off workers!
This ” jobs” thing is just a ploy to help this lopsided bill pass.
2 foreign owned mining companies get land that is worth approx. 93 BILLION dollars in copper and Americans get land that might be worth $50 Million dollars (if that)….AND the proposed lands will need $$$ to bring them up to par.

How is this a good deal for Arizonans…We lose a recreation area & a town is destroyed…RCC gets rich, pollutes the air, land & water, then leaves and we are left to pick up the tab for the cleanup

Kirkpatrick is looking at the short term and NOT the future. NO LAND SWAP!

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