Pebble Partnership sues over EPA contacts with environmentalists

KTUU - NBC Local ^ | October 22, 2014 | by Chris Klint

[Oldeconomybuyer]

ANCHORAGE - The Pebble Partnership is suing the Environmental Protection Agency in federal court, seeking more details on what it calls “secretive meetings” by the agency with environmental groups and anti-Pebble activists.

Pebble claims it filed a Jan. 22 Freedom of Information Act request with the EPA for any communications concerning the project between senior EPA officials, including Administrator Lisa Jackson, and a group of 16 people and organizations.

The National Resources Defense Council, Trout Unlimited, the Bristol Bay Native Corp., and Sen. Mark Begich, as well as some of their employees, were listed specifically. So were anti-Pebble activists Alan Boraas and Rick Halford.

“They’ve not released one email from the administrator relevant to Pebble,” Heatwole said. “For an open and transparent process, they’ve been very reluctant to put them in the public space.”

In addition to attorney’s fees and any further relief approved by the court, Pebble seeks EPA release of “any and all documents wrongfully withheld or redacted that are responsive to the FOIA request.”

“What we’re trying to do is get all the pieces of the puzzle,” Heatwole said.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Shut down the EPA. Root and branch. States can manage the environment, the courts can weigh in on interstate matters.

[Crazieman]

All the relevant information was on Lois Lerner’s hard drive.

[hosepipe]

This suit might have turned into something...
You know....... way back when we had the rule of law..

Holder’s replacement is no doubt like a Borg Drone..

[DUMBGRUNT]

Pebble has copies of the presentation itself, which calls for a preemptive EPA shutdown of the Pebble project in its final slide

Some citizens are more equal than others.