We saw hundreds of train cars full of salt leaving every year during SpeedWeeks in the 70's, 80's and 90's, My guess the last 15 years they stopped shipping while the folks that were bitching about the salt going away were around.
Was there any doubt Brenda would not blame the strip miners?
Just to repeat what I have been saying all along:Fishing, logging, and MINING, are extractive industries. SOME of these industries may be sustainable, say fishing, on a shorter than human lifespan timescale. Others, logging for instance; and let's call it what it really is, timber extraction; may require several human lifespans to replenish or sustain.
Mining, however, "extracts" at such high and destructive rates, that "renewal", "replenishment" or "sustainability" can only be achieved on a "GEOLOGIC" time frame,
IF EVER.And yes, that means a time frame of thousands, if not tens of thousands of years . . . . . . . Far to long for even any of our grandchildren to see POSITIVE results . . . . . . .
And in the meantime, government subsidies and ridiculously low "lease" rates, (at taxpayer expense), ensure profitability for corporations engaged in these "extractions".
Call it what you like, but it is really: Corporate "welfare" at its' finest.
If you expected the results of the study to point to extractive industry as the causative factor/culprit in the "diminishment" of the salt crust, well, I don't think that there is anything that anyone can say, that will help you to understand the real purpose of the BLM.
The purpose of the study was to:A/ Shift responsibility from an industry that is 99.9% responsible for the "depletion"
2/ Create additional and false responsibility among "additional users" of the resource
d/ Obfuscate all other issues with a studied focus on superficial and other insignificant topics.
I'll leave it to you to determine on to whom to focus the "blame".
Realityboy