Internal Memos Reveal EPA Worked Behind The Scenes To Kill Alaska Mine Project

For the life of me I don't understand why anybody would believe that IF this project ever gets started, that every governing regulatory agency both federal and state would not be on site making sure that the integrity of the salmon streams was protected.

Maybe it's just me or do people think that if it (Pebble Mine) ever gets going that the government just turns and walks away, allowing this or any mining operation (or logging, or farming, or oil rig etc etc..) to dirty the waters or operate with no oversight?

Whats the Pebble Mine?.......

Just the largest deposit of GOLD, Silver, copper and molybdenum ever found.. a few miles south west of Anchorage..

A very threat to the Salmon... if at all..

This is a risk versus reward affair.

I am not an Alaskan, so what does it matter what I think?

Hell, I am not even a Representative from Oklahoma.

I will say this, though... there is plenty of copper in the desert wastelands of Arizona. Plus, I have little doubt the refined copper from Pebble Mine would just go right to China for their warmachine... and in return we get shipping containers of plastic fake dog turds to sell to the unwashed American masses at Wal*Mart.

Copper is fungible. China will get their copper. China uses more copper than we do because they have an economy that is not strangled by regulations. USA doesn’t need as much because we don’t grow. We choke on ourselves and waste trillions on dog parks that nobody uses. I think i should go learn manderan so i can speak with my new masters.

Really?

Perhaps you can explain why the most highly prized, expensive and heavily marketed Alaska salmon spawn in the tailings of an unregulated copper mine. (Google Copper River Red Salmon or Kennicott mine)

Following that you can ask why there are any salmon at all left in Bristol bay. In 1912, Mt. Katami erupted and spilled 2 1/2 cubic miles of highly sulphuric volcanic ash into the watershed. Steam still seeps from the "valley of ten thousand smokes". The lakes there are still stained and colored with ash and pumice from the eruption and support the highest population of salmon in the world. There are rivers and creeks that run off of the volcanic areas with a ph of 10+ where salmon spawn today.

The impact of nature over the last hundred years has been orders of magnitude greater than even a catastrophic failure at the proposed mine.

The Bristol Bay Area is a bountiful resource where salmon is in abundance for 6 weeks a year. The rest of the time is is an area of extreme poverty steeped in alcoholism, substance abuse, suicide, and dependency. The pebble project would boost the economy, add year round jobs and break the cycle of abuse and dependency in the region.

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