Independent American Party
National Platform
8. NATURAL RESOURCES
Environment
We favor the dynamic balance between development and
conservation. We assert that areas mined or explored should be restored to
their original condition or better. We favor the preservation of our
forests by replanting, healthy management, and the use and development of
alternative materials.
We deem protection of the environment as a function and responsibility
falling under state jurisdiction, rather than national or global
organizations. Therefore, we favor the elimination of the Environmental
Protection Agency, the Wilderness Act, the federal Endangered Species Act,
federal wetland legislation, and all federal government and international
interference in state environmental and land matters.
We oppose federal ownership or management of any properties not
specified in the Constitution. We also call for the repeal of all executive
orders and treaties allowing U.N. control or governance over U.S. land and
resources.
Energy
We favor the development of safe and inexpensive
alternative energy sources, such as wind, fuel cells and solar power. We
support the prudent and efficient use of other natural resources such as
coal, shale oil, oil sands, and agricultural products, for the production
of power and synthetic fuels. We also support the private construction and
use of nuclear energy facilities through free market enterprise.
We favor abolishing the wasteful and unconstitutional U.S. Department
of Energy. We favor the following: Advancement of technologies that would
decrease air pollution; incentives for scientific advancement, rather than
pollution penalties imposed upon the technology-dependent public;
decreasing the demand on foreign oil, through the use of our own
reservoirs, capped wells, and sources yet untapped; and state and local
incentives to advance alternatives superior to oil and gas.
Commentary:
Platform
- Natural Resources
(National Chairman's Letter - November 2003)
