Question:
The Utah Question:
Why did Clinton turn 1.7 million acres of "enviro-coal" land into a
national park in Utah?
The Lippo Question:
The Indonesians gave Clinton big money, including $630,000 to his Legal
Defense Fund. What did they get in return?
The Answer:
Big monopolistic profits from its "enviro-coal" -- now
that Clinton has blocked Utah's coal resources from reaching the
market.
Answer:
Clinton designated 1.7 millionacres of Utah wilderness as a national
monument, he dashed plans to tap a huge reserve of environment-
friendly coal. The White House says the president acted to preserve
a beautiful, exotic place. They forgot to mention that Indonesia --
already mining similar cleaner-burningcoal -- and the multibillion-
dollar Lippo Group with financial interests there would benefit
greatly. The Lippo conglomerate's founder, billionaire Mochtar
Riady, and his family members and associates illegally gave hundreds
of thousands of dollars to Mr. Clinton and the Democrats.
The coal found beneath the Utah area's red-rock cliffs burns hot but
emits far less polluting sulfur than most coal mined in the United
States. It's known as "super compliance" coal because its properties
meet Clean Air Act standards.
The thing which is truly astonishing is the staggering amount of money
involved in this one. All accounts I have read indicate that Slick
pulled one trillion dollars out of our economy on this one for the
benefit of his Lippo buddies. That's Trillion, with a capital T,
something like 1/5 of the entire national debt. It's amazing how
idiots can talk about Slick being good for the economy with evidence
of that kind of thing sitting around.
Bill Clinton has put 25% of this country's so-called
"compliance coal" or "enviro coal" (i.e., clean-burning,
low sulfur) off limits with his Executive Order declaring
this section of Utah to be a national park. The remaining
75% of this type of coal happens to be in places that are
hard to get to, difficult to mine, difficult to transport
coal from, like the mountains of Wyoming, therefore the
cost-effectiveness of mining the coal from these other
areas is diminished.
Gutmann reports that, under NAFTA, Mexico had to "sign on
to" some of our clean air rules, so they are in the process
of building new power plants which will require this type
of "compliance coal". Utah was to be an export center for
all these new Mexican power plants. This would have meant
thousands of coal mining and related jobs for Utah. The
impact on the environment would have been minimal since
this coal would require UNDERGROUND MINING, not strip
mining. The coal would have been easily transportable
through train lines to Long Beach, California, and there
loaded onto barges and shipped to Mexico -- that is, until
Bill Clinton declared with the sweep of a pen that their
coal is untouchable. Now, most likely, the Mexicans will be
buying their "compliance coal" from Indonesia.
The other shoe has finally dropped on COAL-GATE and it all
started, Gutmann reports, as far back as 1977. That's when
Mochtar Riady and his son, James, first arrived in this
country and started buying up Bert Lance's assets, clearly
making a play for the Carter administration. But their
attention was later turned in another direction by Jackson
Stephens who essentially said, here's a real comer (no pun
intended), and introduced them to Bill Clinton. So the
Riady's started investing like mad in Little Rock and in
the political career of William Jefferson Blythe Clinton.
They got to know Hillary Clinton, Webster Hubbell, Vince
Foster, and others in the Clinton circle of power. They
bailed Clinton out during the New Hampshire primaries and
held on all the way through to the White House--where they
put John Huang in a key position at the Commerce Dept.
thanks to an expedited top-level security clearance
courtesy of the Clinton White House.
