EPA caught working behind the scenes to kill huge mining project in Alaska

[NightTrain]

The proposed Pebble Mine is located out of King Salmon, I've done a few jobs out there. It's about 300 miles west of Anchorage.

It's a proposed mine that estimates have put at over 107 million ounces of gold and over 80 billion pounds of copper.

From the get-go, the EPA has done everything it can to derail the project and every environmentalist group you can think of has done their part in hampering approval. Just like every other proposed project here in AK, outside groups and Federal agencies do their best to stop any sort of progress that isn't a windmill or solar farm - it's insanely frustrating.


“Rather than allowing the filing of a mining permit application, the EPA employees secretly plotted with environmental activists to undermine the ability of land owners to objectively evaluate and develop the proposed mining of the Pebble deposit … and thereby establishing a precedent that will have long-term harmful impacts on investment and job creation in the United States,” Pebble Partnership wrote in an April 29-dated letter to the EPA (http://watchdog.org/141980/epa-alaska-mine-2/).

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/05/01/internal-emails-reveal-epa-worked-in-secret-to-get-pebble-mine-project-killed/

[NightTrain]

The Natural Resources Defense Council, a New York City international environmental advocacy group, is among a long list of powerful environmentalists endorsing EPA’s initiation of the Clean Water Act provision.“Now, as the people of Bristol Bay will tell (McCarthy) loud and clear, the EPA must take the next step, finalize its assessment, and initiate action under the Clean Water Act to stop the Pebble Mine,” NRDC president Frances Beinecke proclaimed in astatement (http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/fbeinecke/pebble_mine_hazards.html)before the EPA administrator’s trip to Alaska last fall.
Wish fulfilled.
But Collier warned the actions that the EPA is contemplating go well beyond Pebble. Shutting down a development project before developers have a chance to present their plan at a public hearing could have deleterious consequences, Collier asserts.
“It is a precedent that will be leveraged by environmental activist groups and will have a chilling effect on future investment and job creation throughout the country,” Collier said. “Congress never intended to grant EPA the authority to undertake proactive watershed zoning over broad areas of state and private lands when it passed the Clean Water Act, yet that is exactly what is happening here.”

http://watchdog.org/141980/epa-alaska-mine-2/

[Kathianne]

It's almost like the government was against the American people...

[Gunny]

It's almost like the government was against the American people...

The EPA certainly is. The Rust Belt is a prime example. Never mind the rest of the laughs, then continues what it was doing. The high and mighty EPA thinks the US censoring itself commercially is going to get people who will fight over a dollar to give a crap about what they're polluting. And does nothing in reality but screw the US and its citizens.

[Gaffer]

The EPA needs to be first on the list of govt agencies shut down when we get a new congress and president. It's like unions, itself usefulness is long over. Now days it's only there for the money. Or when the govt needs thugs.