In my email, evidently originating from wnd.com is this outstanding and informative piece about what's behind the Bundy Ranch BLM oppressive actions:
HARRY REID'S LAST ROUNDUP
Exclusive: Joseph Farah exposes China deal
possibly driving fed action against
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy who performed a remarkable
public service for America over the last couple weeks.
He exposed the utter ruthlessness, brutishness
and Gestapo tactics of the federal government in dealing with honest,
hard-working Americans who live off the land – our land. Claiming Bundy’s cattle ranching operation was
endangering desert tortoises, the Bureau of Land Management treated him like he
was Ted Bundy. I take that back. The serial rapist, mass murderer and
necrophile got due process.
When Cliven Bundy’s neighbors turned out to
support him, as good American neighbors should, the BLM sent in helicopters,
four-wheel-drive vehicles and an estimated 200 armed officers to deal with the
cowboy and his family, threatening another Ruby Ridge or Waco-style slaughter. But I don’t think it was about tortoises. No,
sir. In fact, with all the gear and manpower the BLM brought to Clark County to
round up the cowboy and his cattle, they did more environmental damage to the
area than Cliven Bundy ever could have dreamed of doing.
This was about something else.
It’s always about something else.
Maybe – just maybe – it had to do with another
Nevadan by the name of Harry Reid. It seems the Senate majority leader has been
doing favors for a Chinese energy giant ENN, which has plans to build massive
solar facilities in that area – tortoises or no tortoises. It seems the director of BLM is Reid’s former
senior adviser, Neil Kornze. BLM had posted on its website documents stating
the agency wanted Bundy’s cattle off of the land his family has worked for over
140 years in order to make way for solar panel power stations. The agency
removed it when the standoff became national news.
“Non-Governmental Organizations have expressed
concern that the regional mitigation strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy
Zone utilizes Gold Butte as the location for offsite mitigation for impacts
from solar development, and that those restoration activities are not durable
with the presence of trespass cattle,” the document states. That would be the Chinese solar plant – the
Management, or BLM.
They were getting a mega-deal. On April 3, 3012,
Bloomberg reported Chinese billionaire Wang Yusuo, one of China’s richest citizens
and the founder of ENN, had teamed up with Harry Reid to win incentives
including land 113 miles southeast of Las Vegas that ENN sought to buy for $4.5
million, less than one-eighth of the land’s $38.6 million assessed value.
But the story gets better. Harry Reid’s son,
Rory Reid, was the chief representative for a Chinese energy firm planning to
build a $5-billion solar plant on public land in Laughlin, Nev. A Reuters report stated: “[Reid] and his oldest
son, Rory, are both involved in an effort by a Chinese energy giant, ENN Energy Group, to build a $5 billion solar
farm and panel manufacturing plant in the southern Nevada desert. Reid has been one of the project’s most prominent
advocates, helping recruit the company during a 2011 trip to China and applying
his political muscle on behalf of the project in Nevada. His son, a
lawyer with a prominent Las Vegas firm that is representing ENN, helped it
locate a 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) desert site that it is buying well below
appraised value from Clark County, where Rory Reid formerly chaired the county
commission.”
And there’s an even bigger story of scandal and
corruption still beneath this show of force by the BLM, orchestrated by Harry
Reid. On Jan. 20, 2013, WND
warned Chinese government-backed economists were proposing a plan to allow
Chinese corporations to set up “development zones” in the United States as part
of a plan proposed by the Chinese government to convert into equity the more
than $1 trillion in U.S. Treasury debt owned by the Chinese government. The next day, Jan. 21, 2013, WND
documented the Obama administration had begun to allow China to acquire major
ownership interests in oil and natural gas resources across the USA.
The first major intrusion of China in the U.S.
oil and natural gas market can be traced to the Obama administration decision
in October 2009 to allow state-owned Chinese energy giant China Offshore Oil
Corporation, or CNOOC, to purchase a multi-million-dollar stake in 600,000
acres of South Texas oil and gas fields. By allowing China to have equity interests in
U.S. oil and natural gas production, the Obama administration reversed a policy
of the Bush administration that in 2005 blocked China on grounds of national
security concerns from an $18.4-billion deal in which China planned to purchase
California-based Unocal Corp.
China’s two, giant, state-owned oil companies
acquiring oil and natural gas interests in the USA are CNOOC, 100 percent owned
by the government of the People’s Republic of China, and Sinopec Group, the
largest shareholder of Sinopac Corporation, an investment company owned by the
government of the People’s Republic of China, incorporated in China in 1998,
largely to acquire and operate oil and natural gas interests worldwide.
On March 6, 2012, the Wall Street Journal
compiled a state-by-state list of the $17 billion in oil and natural gas equity
interests CNOOC and Sinopec have acquired in the United States since 2010.
·
Colorado: CNOOC gained a
one-third stake in 800,000 acres in northeast Colorado and southwest Wyoming in
a $1.27-billion pact with Chesapeake Energy Corporation.
·
·
Louisiana: Sinopec has a
one-third interest in 265,000 acres in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale after a
broader $2.5-billion deal with Devon Energy.
·
·
Michigan: Sinopec gained
a one-third interest in 350,000 acres in a larger $2.5-billion deal with Devon
Energy.
·
·
Ohio: Sinopec acquired a
one-third interest in Devon Energy’s 235,000 Utica Shale acres in a larger
$2.5-billion deal.
·
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Oklahoma: Sinopec has a
one-third interest in 215,000 acres in a broader $2.5-billion deal with Devon
Energy.
·
·
Texas: CNOOC acquired a
one-third interest in Chesapeake Energy’s 600,000 acres in the Eagle Ford Shale
in a $2.16-billion deal.
·
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Wyoming: CNOOC has a
one-third stake in northeast Colorado and southeast Wyoming after a
$1.27-billion pact with Chesapeake Energy. Sinopec gained a one-third interest
in Devon Energy’s 320,000 acres as part of a larger $2.5-billion deal.
On March 6, 2012, in a separate story, the Wall
Street Journal described that China’s strategy implemented since 2010 by Fu
Chengyu, who has served as chairman of both CNOOC and Sinopec, involved the
following components: “Seek minority states, play a passive role, and, in a nod
to U.S. regulators, keep Chinese personnel at arm’s length from advanced U.S.
technology.”
But back to Cliven Bundy and Harry Reid.
Remember Solyndra? ENN intended to create solar energy farms on the
Nevada land, despite the nearly 50 percent plunge in solar panel prices
globally in the previous 15 months that led to the bankruptcy of solar
equipment maker Solyndra LLC, which had received approximately $535 million in
U.S. government loan guarantees. And, yes, money exchanged hands between ENN and
Reid. The Chinese energy company contributed $40,650 individually and through
its political action committee to Sen. Reid over the previous three election
cycles.
Reid was recruited by ENN during a 2011 trip he
took to China with nine other U.S. senators, supposedly to invite Chinese
investment in the United States. The Senate group accompanying Reid on his 2011
trip to China included six other Democrats and three Republicans: Richard
Shelby, R-Ala.; Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.; Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Mike Enzi,
R-Wyo.; Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.; Johnny Isakson, R-Ga.;
Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.; and Michael Bennet, D-Colo.
Thank you, Cliven Bundy for bringing all of this
to the public’s attention.
America is with you.
I am with you.
Enough is enough.
Thank you for exposing how crony capitalism
works hand in hand with phony environmentalism. Indeed, as Kris Kristofferson once wrote,
“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.”
Media wishing to interview Joseph Farah, please
contact media@wnd.com.
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