“Zinke fingered in Bears Ears” is a phrase which derives from “Zinke fingered in Bears Ears corruption probe over uranium mining interests”, the title of a post on the popular blog Boing Boing.
Exerpt:
An energy firm linked to uranium mining interests around Bears Ears National Monument in Utah met with a senior Department of Interior official just one month President Donald Trump issued a surprise request to review the monument’s boundaries. When the review concluded, Trump shrank the monument by 85%. Some 100 uranium claims that were previously *inside* the monument’s protected boundary were suddenly on the outside.
Now, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul M. Grijalva (D-AZ) says Democrats plan hold a hearing on March 13, to look into that shady review.
They sent an invitation to Ryan Zinke, who led the Department of the Interior under Trump at that time and was forced to resign in disgrace over other corruption charges.
Zinke declined the invitation.
Roll Call reports that documents show that Energy Fuels Resources (USA) Inc., a United States subsidiary of a Canadian energy and mining firm, met with a top DOI official who knew he’d be personally involved with such a review, before Trump requested it.
The House Natural Resources Committee wants know if the 2017 reassessment “had a predetermined outcome of shrinking Bears Ears to benefit the uranium sector generally and Energy Fuels Resources specifically.”
In the comments section, user Pensketch wryly observed:
“Zinke fingered in Bears Ears” sounds like the worst porn title ever.
Which inspired me to write this anagram.
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