Uranim company lobbied Trump to shrink Bears Ears national park

A few days ago Donald Trump ordered Bear Ears national park in Utah to be shrunk by more than 85% of its size. But the Washington Post found out a Canadian uranium company lobbied Trump to shrink the national park in order to make it easier for the company to process uranium.

From the Washington Post article:

A uranium company launched a concerted lobbying campaign to scale back Bears Ears National Monument, saying such action would give it easier access to the area’s uranium deposits and help it operate a nearby processing mill, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and top Utah Republicans have said repeatedly that questions of mining or drilling played no role in President Trump’s announcement Monday that he was cutting the site by more than 1.1 million acres, or 85 percent. Trump also signed a proclamation nearly halving the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, which is also in southern Utah and has significant coal deposits.

It's going to be a pretty big irony of the Russians end up buying that Canadian company.