New film about Oak Flat, AZ and the copper mine threat

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AZKid

Trad climber

Phoenix, AZ

Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2013 - 06:19pm PT

Copper is a good useful metal - and there are plenty of mines in AZ that can supply it right now. Another mine would only serve to make a foreign company rich.

mechrist

Gym climber

South of Heaven

Mar 23, 2013 - 12:03am PT

Missed this the first time around.

Thanks.

MisterE

Social climber

Mar 23, 2013 - 10:25am PT

Thanks for the link!

That movie is well done, and really strikes to the heart of the issues.

10b4me

Ice climber

Happy Boulders

Mar 23, 2013 - 10:36am PT

Anyone wishing to help can do so by writing an opposition letter to Sen. Ron Wyden in Oregon, chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and to new Interior Secretary Sally Jewell.

I recommend sending letters to your local congressman, and senator as well. I wouldn't send a letter to Jewell. She has not been confirmed yet.

AZKid

Trad climber

Phoenix, AZ

Topic Author's Reply - Mar 25, 2013 - 07:47pm PT

A new camping guidebook is out by AZ Highways and features Oak Flat Campground as one of the best campgrounds in AZ.

http://www.shoparizonahighways.com/arizona-highways-camping-guide

AZKid

Trad climber

Phoenix, AZ

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 15, 2013 - 02:57pm PT

In April 2013, Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick did an interview with a Phoenix PBS show called Horizon. You can hear her comments about Oak Flat and the proposed copper mine beginning at the 5:30-minute mark and ending around 10:00.

http://video.azpbs.org/video/2364990236

Kirkpatrick says in there that climbers support the mine proposal. Because of the Queen Creek Coalition's deal with Resolution Coppper, Kirkpatrick is claiming that climbers are all on board with the mine!

the albatross

Gym climber

Flagstaff

Apr 15, 2013 - 07:18pm PT

Here is an interesting propaganda video made by Resolution Copper Company.

I like the guy about 16 seconds into the clip, who says, "I like to break rocks. I like drilling, blasting and mucking." He reminds me of that guy in the video from the Gunks that was circulating a few months back...

http://vimeo.com/48534415

Curt

climber

Gold Canyon, AZ

Apr 15, 2013 - 07:59pm PT

Kirkpatrick made a few interesting comments in the above interview. Among them:

1) She claims that the question of adequate water supply for the mine and surrounding communities can not possibly be known without doing an environmental analysis and collecting the data. In spite of this, she has co-sponsored land exchange legislation that completely bypasses any such NEPA mandated analysis.

2) She claims that climbing areas have been protected by an arrangement with a local climbing group. This is completely false.

3) She claims that the recent layoffs at this mine project were due to uncertainty over the copper company getting this land exchange legislation passed. This is also completely false--the layoffs were dictated by the parent company (Rio Tinto) who announced drastic cut backs in all of their mine development projects worldwide last December.

In response to last week's interview of Anne Kirkpatrick on the Horizon News program, KAET Ch. 8 has invited Superior Town Councilmember Kiki Peralta and I to be interviewed in studio and address concerns specifically referencing the RCM Land Exchange Bill (HR 687), and what has transpired since the Town of Superior took action to oppose the legislation. I believe Ms. Peralta's interview will air at 5:30 MST today (in about 30 minutes from now)

Curt