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JMD to Oppose HB 2841 Promoted as a miner's bill to guarantee consultation. It does not. Read the Warning below and the Comment to be filed. More importantly read the actual Bill. Do not take merely accept what you are told.

WARNING: In the opinion of JMD, the "mining rights" legislation proposed to date are no good. These are merely bones thrown to subdue miners out of their voice and opposition. Do not be suckered into believing anyone today knows mining law better than Congress in 1865 to 1872. The so-called Miner's Right to Work bill is a FAIL; We're not mere workers, We're grantees in possession. Any mining rights bill suggestion this session, such as the bill to guarantee consultation appears to be a FAIL.
The only thing property possessors need is the existing law be respected, insuring once again we are left alone to enjoy our property in peace, as the Mining Law was intended to provide.
JMD To File Opposition to HB 2841 which already unanimously passed the House and is now before the Senate Natural Resources Committee. This shows the dangers of representatives and miners that do not sufficiently know the law of the mineral estate. JMD offers a solution to bring even the existing statute more into compliance with the Mining Law.

More Legislative Plunder:
HB 3337 More A-21, i.e., Sustainable Development stealing your way if life. Where Rocks have more rights and you have none. Tied to SB 839.
PULLED from Work Session as of 05/15/13.

JMD HB2259 OPPOSITION COMMENT FILED: PASSED
Granted Public Necessity
Oregon Water Resource Board's HB2259 Returned to Committee

Increases limited license from $250.00 to $350.00 for high-banking/GRANTED water.
(at the request of Governor John A. Kitzhaber, M.D.,)
Referred to Agriculture and Natural Resources with subsequent
referral to Ways and Means, directed back to the OWRD, then ANR.

Thank you to Bob Stumbo and Tom Quintal for your oral testimony.
Chairman Rep. Brad Witt requested the department resolve the water grant issues and get back to Rep. Witt with the results, requested miners to meet with ODOWR Director. JMD will tenaciously protect the 1866 water grant for all appropriators. We need your help.

UPDATE: After the meeting with the OWRD agency, Attorney General Assistant could not produce valid interpretation of the law to provide OWRD subject matter authority over the extent of the proposed legislation. No authority was provided to charge a fee to maintain a water rights. Oregon Water Rights Act expressly recognizes vested and Granted Uses such that "nothing contained in the Water Rights Act shall be so construed as to take away or impair the vested right of any person to any water or to the use of any water." OWRD position is, essentially, That's our story and we're sticking to it. Sue us if you don't like it.
Prepare to engage the Committee and Legislature in opposition when the Bill returns. Do not expect more than the corruption the legislature evidenced when forcing HB 2248 through despite the found frauds or misrepresentations of the Attorney General. If you choose not to engage to stop this in the legislature, prepare for your unlawful takings lawsuits or loose your granted right to water.

JMD Memorial Notice to the proceedings of HB 2259:
The presentation of the Attorney General evidenced:

1. Fraud By Omission, 2. Fraud By Misrepresentation, 3. Fraud By Collusion, 4. Fraud By Deprivation Of Rights, 5. Fraud In No Real Purpose Or Intent To Gather The Law, 6. Deprivation of the Truth or Applicable Facts, 7. Fraud By Covert Agenda, 8. Fraud By Evasion; 9. Done Under Color of Official Authority to Deprive Grantees of Their Property. And the fraudulent representations of the OWRD Director.

HB2248 JMD OPPOSITION Comment Filed: PASSED
Expands statutes related to mineral resources to encompass additional types of mining. (at the request of Governor John A. Kitzhaber, M.D.,)

BREAKING NEWS: Legislative Committee ordered DOGAMI meeting to address discrepancies with HB 2248 and independent miners upon JMD Comment. March 7, 2012, hearing exposed Opposition to the Bill where DOGAMI had declared there was none and Representative Whitsett identified inconsistencies in DOGAMI's statements. DOGAMI to respond to 13-page JMD Comment within 2 weeks. JMD was represented from both Southern Oregon and the newly annexed section of Eastern Oregon presenting Mining Law a production-based information exposing severe problems with HB 2248. The legislation appears to be a damaging sweetheart deal model permitting standard orchestrated by the NWMA which will do great damage to independent miners. We appreciate committee Reps Wayne Krieger and Gail Whitsett for taking a keen interest in this very important and detrimental matter.
UPDATE: BILL returned to Committee then sent without prior notice to Ways and Means without further public input and against the Attorney General's misrepresentation and frauds of omission exposed in the JMD Reply after a meeting with DOGAMI. The Memorandum of the Attorney General which Rep. Whittset ordered was required of DOGAMI to remove the challenges to its unsupportable claim to authority and jurisdiction brought out by JMD in its 13 page Comment did not responsively answer to the Comment. This is a serious and egregious breach of duty. This style tyranny will require more than mere comments to stop. Despite the misrepresentations of the Attorney General, the Committee Voted 7-2 to pass the Bill and send it to the Ways and Means committee. Despite early inquiry, only 2 Representatives were honorable enough to reflect the law. Notice, disappointingly, Rep. Krieger did not stay the lawful course.
Thank you to Rep. Whittset and Rep. Thompson for your opposition to this bill which will advance an authority and jurisdiction the Attorney General could not show lawfully exists could affect mineral estate grantees, or any mineral entryman for that matter.
JMD intends to file protests with the members of the Ways and Means Committee, two members of which are on the ill-fated subcommittee passing the bill.
The Legislative game is rigged against property owners and their right of peaceful possession. JMD hopes you join in to protest to the Ways and Means Committee of the open governmental theft of your property and rights. With all due respect, standing on the steps of the "Mable Nuthouse" will not be enough.

Extremist Pseudo-Environmental Group Known to Sue and Settle "Wins":
    Three companies granted permits, including Tidewater (above), Freeman Rock and South Coast Lumber Co., will be allowed to continue gravel mining on the Chetco River until a remedy is worked out between government agencies and an environmental group.
    Because the Curry Pilot is such a Special Interest Rag, JMD includes instead the court decision so you can decide why the miners are still mining despite some failures of public participation. The court explains why better than the shills at the Pilot.
    The decision doesn't lead with more than a mention of the "Human Environment" priority, or that discharge into the river does not mean extraction from the river. But it has some interesting things to say, such as little if any harm due to mining. And Status Quo means mining where ever it has been done as in this case.

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