Major Player in Fight Against Coal Company Bows Out
In what the leader of an environmental group said was a surprising and stunning blow to an effort to stop a Mexican company from mining coal on the border, an American Indian tribe has backed out of the fight.
The Eagle Pass-based Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas has officially withdrawn its opposition to a permit application filed by the Dos Republicas Coal Partnership, which seeks permission to mine low-grade coal from approximately 6,300 acres of land in the border town. The coal will not be used in Texas, however, but instead shipped to the Mexican state of Coahuila.
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gypsy314 ne
Mean while every other country will use coal and still things are going to happen. I say tax the coal higher if not used cleaner.
Anyone but Obama the fraud and the liar democrats!
Jim Vance
So, the question essentially boils down to this -- just who got the payoff and what exactly did they get for dropping the tribe's opposition cold?
David Spratt
Some dust and the remote possibility of a picture falling off a wall due to blasting? From earlier stories the people living along the border and south Texas are the kings of welfare assistance in Texas. Who needs jobs and economic activity ? Just goes to show despite all the complaining about how depressed the area is ,,,,, they are content with the way things are. The problem is the rest of us who have jobs just do not pay enough . Looks like they would have to import labor from across the border since obviously none of these people want the jobs.
Meme Me
"Baxter and his group have also publicly opposed that project because it will facilitate the mine, although Baxter now thinks the end goal of the mine project was to help usher in the rail line."
“I think it may well be that the mine is the adjunct to the railroad rather than the railroad being the adjunct to the mine,” he said. “You talk about a dream situation for certain activities: your own private railroad, your own private bridge and your own private property on both sides of the river to unload and load it.”
*Sounds like the ideal Mexican set-up...they own both sides with no U.S. control.
Who did you say owns this company?