Watson, Rebecca

<p>Mining lobby Rebecca Watson asst sec of land and Min mgmt

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rebecca_Watson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rebecca Watson (page does not exist)">Rebecca Watson</a> - "assistant interior secretary for land and minerals. Directing the Bureau of Land Management, Watson is responsible for the rules and fees for gold mining companies, drillers, and other corporations wanting to profit on the wealth of minerals and other public resources within our federal lands. Her qualifications for the job are not as a public defender, but as a Montana lawyer representing mining and logging corporations that either wanted unfettered access to these public treasures or that didn't want to pay for the environmental damage done by their exploitative procedures. Watson has represented Golden Sunlight Mines, Fidelity Exploration, Plum Creek Timber, and other companies regulated by the agency she now heads. She also worked on the litigation committee of the right-wing <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mountain_States_Legal_Foundation" title="Mountain States Legal Foundation">Mountain States Legal Foundation</a>, a litigious, corporate-funded group of legal activists that tries to run over any environmental protection that pinches even a dime's worth of ill-gotten corporate profits."<a href="http://www.utne.com/web_special/web_specials_2004-06/articles/11232-3.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.utne.com/web_special/web_specials_2004-06/articles/11232-3.html" rel="nofollow">[34]</a></li>

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