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5 Year Dredging Moratorium Added To California Budget
Posted by TVP on June 9th, 2011
Attention All California Miners:
There are several articles in various papers, mostly the Sacramento Bee that are carrying stories about the Budget Bill and the Trailer added to add a new 5-yr Suction Dredge Moratorium. Basically, the environmentalists didn’t like what they saw in the initial Environmental Impact Study as it supported the 1994 study that showed that Suction Dredging IS NOT harmful to the environment.
If you ever want to be able to use a suction dredge in California again, it is imperative that you act now and voice your opinion!
Here are links to two articles in the Sacramento Bee where you can leave a comment at the bottom of the article. You may not think that it will help, but it makes a huge impact.
Catch-22 in California budget language may doom suction dredge mining
Ted Gaines blasts how lawmakers stymied suction dredge mining
Here is a link where you can fill out a form to email Governor Brown and let him know how you feel about this change to the budget and the negative impact on the mining community.
The email method is the best way to get the information to Sacramento, but if you can’t do that then here is the Governor’s other contact information. If you use these other methods, try to FAX your comments as the phone calls carry little weight and the mail may not get reviewed for up to 90 days.
Mailing address:
Governor Jerry Brown
c/o State Capitol, Suite 1173
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 445-2841
Fax: (916) 558-3160
Not sure what to say? Click here to get a sample letter/email. Be sure to change the letter to make it your own as they will typically discard canned letters.
Thank you for your help and support!
June 18th, 2011 at 11:34 pm
I have been dredgeing for quite some time 10 years lets see. the river i dredge in is not the same river i dredged in 10 years ago. The rain this year tore the river apart and its a new river now. how do they explain that? mother nature. okay pass a law prohibiting dreadging for 5 years how do they explain that? people who get paid to ruin what this country was built on and would love nothing more then to tare this state apart.
October 20th, 2011 at 7:21 pm
Dredging never strays far from my daily train of thought. Neither does the head shaking that seems to go along with the reasoning that went into putting us off the river. I explain the pro’s and con’s of both sides of the final argument, but find that the eyes have long since glassed over on whom ever is on the receiving end. Imaging the head shaking that started and continues as I write this when I found an article completely unrelated to mining yet totally relevant to the argument. While killing time on the Internet, an article talking about an alternative to cremation using lye. An argument made for the practice states that standard cremation releases 5000 pounds of Mercury vapor into the air from dental fillings. 5000 pounds of mercury, that will eventually end up in lakes and rivers across our once great land. And any discovery of mercury will of course deamonize anyone associated to gold prospecting, dredging or mining. Still waiting for a plan from the other side as to how they plan to remove all that Mercury. Hmmm.