Rare Earth Deposits Found In Nebraska : EPA To Attack?

What a great find and what a boost for the local community. But wait just a minute, I hate to throw cold water on such good news, but the question must be raised, how will this impact the environment? hmmmmm Mark my words, the environmentalists, progressive socialists, will descend on this community like flies on a road kill. This is a sure sign of prosperity for this community and it must be stopped at all costs.

And it will come as no surprise, the EPA will stop all operations until a proper 'environmental impact statement' can be done. Remember how long it takes to get a statement to build a nuclear power plant? It has taken 10 years or more and then when it was done, the EPA wouldn't allow the construction because, in there words, more research has come to light that indicates more analysis has to be done before licenses are rewarded. There hasn't been a new nuclear power plant built in this country in a decade or more.

Remember the coal industry complied with all rules and regulations demanded on that industry only to be told that now new rules must be complied with before they can go into operation. The new rules not only stopped new construction of coal fired power plants but it shut down many now if opertion and stopped mining operations for coal. More than 6000 lost their jobs as a result.

What is going on here is shutting down fossil fuel energy production and reducing America to a third world country. This is the agenda of the liberal progressive left socialists. They are at war with America. This is who they are!

Elk Creek Nebraska rare earth mineral find may be world’s largest and rivals
China deposits
From To Market News August 3, 2011.

“Elk Creek, Neb. (population 112), may not be so tiny much longer. Reports suggest that the southeastern Nebraska hamlet may be sitting on the world’s largest untapped deposit of “rare earth” minerals, which have proved to be indispensable to a slew of high-tech and military applications such as laser pointers, stadium lighting, electric car batteries and sophisticated missile-guidance systems.

Canada-based Quantum Rare Earths Developments Corp. last week received preliminary results from test drilling in the area, showing “significant” proportions of “rare earth” minerals and niobium.

The only people more excited than Quantum? The residents of Elk Creek, where nearly one in seven people live under the poverty line, but whose economy has been booming ever since the company showed up late last year to start laying the groundwork for a possible mining bonanza.
“It’s been a very, very positive experience for our community,” said state Sen. Lavon Heidemann, an Elk Creek farmer.

“When Quantum came in here, they put money in the local community. And any time you have money flowing in a small town, that’s a positive.”

The potential mining operation, the first in the U.S. in a decade, could have an international impact as well. U.S. officials and lawmakers in Congress have been eager to break the near monopoly on global production of the 17 rare-earth elements in China, which has shown its willingness to use its power in the market for political ends.”