Question:
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.
Answer:
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.
Gutmann says, although we're seeing the recent scandals of campaign
contributions, the real events took place during Ron Brown's trade
missions in 1994. Brown would set up deals between American companies
and Indonesian companies to build coal-burning power plants in
Indonesia and in China. Apparently they understood what was going to
happen even back then.
Gutmann added that President Clinton has made sure that we can't
export it, either. ADARO is the name of the company that owns
Indonesian Coal (actually the Indonesian government owns the mineral
resources, but this company has the mining rights). ADARO owns a fair
amount of the Wyoming coal in this country, too.
Occidental Petroleum is the only oil corporation that Bill Clinton has granted
exploration and drilling rights on Federal off-shore oil reserves. All other
oil exploration companies had been refused new drilling rights during Clinton's
Administration.
It is Occidental Petroleum from which Al Gore and his mother received most of
their personal wealth.
The Clinton/Gore administration went on to stop the mining of low sulfur coal
on federal property, leaving the United States with only one source of low
sulfur coal. That source is the coal industry that is controlled by the Riady
family in Indonesia, the same Riady that was instrumental in lobbying for the
exchange of high-tech missle technology that Clinton/Gore took out of the care
of the State Department.
The function of the State Department in technology matters is to safe-guard our
military technology. Cljnton/Gore removed custody of that technology and placed
it into the Commerce Department. The Commerce Department then signed off on the
technology transfer to the Chinese. That transfer took place with technology
supplied by Loral Corp, which then made a handsome profit. Loral had been one
of the largest corporate contributors to Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign.
As a result, the Chinese and North Koreans have been successfully testing
missles that have been greatly improved in accuracy with the use of that
American technology. The Chineese now have missles that can accurately be
targeted on the American main land.
