Not surprising.   Walmart USA did something similar in Paso Robles, 
California, several years ago, when it constructed the parking lot for a superstore 
over an Salinan Indian burial ground.   The tribe vigorously opposed this, 
but as time went on, opposition from tribal members and concern by public 
officials decreased markedly.   It seems that mometary incentives decrease 
one's committment to preservation around the world.   I predict that this will 
become increasingly a problem in the tough economic years ahead, when 
throwing money to potential oppoonents may be even more effective.
Meanwhile, I don't shop at Wal Mart.   THINK LOCALLY; ACT GLOBALLY.

In a similar way, the Mitsubishi whaling group supported the Makah tribal 
move to practice whaling in an effort to weaking the international whaling 
ban agreements. They were playing on the Maskah treaty rights of the 1880s to 
feather their own nest. The outraged reaction of ecologists further 
alientated the Makah, who saw this issue as a question of sovereignty. What a world!

Bob Hoover