Well there you go, ey.
Posted on 11/26/2014 8:54:14 AM PST by jazusamo
On-again, off-again plans for the world's largest gold and copper mine could be back on again, after a federal judge in Alaska issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Environmental Protection Agency from its ongoing efforts to bury the project.
Pebble Partnership, the Canadian company behind the project, which would take place near Anchorage, claims the regulatory agency has conspired illegally with opponents of the mine to devise scientific and environmental justifications for blocking it. Salmon fishermen in Washington state and Alaska, Native American groups and environmental organizations have opposed the massive project for several years, and had appeared to have gotten it scuttled prior to Tuesday's ruling by U.S. District Judge Russel Holland, in Anchorage.
“We expect the case may take several months to complete,” Pebble Partnership CEO Tom Collier said Tuesday after the U.S. District Court ruling in Anchorage. “This means that, for the first time, EPA’s march to preemptively veto Pebble has been halted.”
Holland's ruling stops the EPA from taking action against the project until he makes a decision on Pebble’s lawsuit claiming the agency broke the law to stop the mine. Pebble Partnership's lawsuit claims the EPA secretly relied on opponents of the mine to help craft a “patently biased” environmental assessment that determined the project could be devastating for the salmon of Bristol Bay.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Everything you say may be true but the fact is Phillip North has bugged out and will not back up his findings nor will the EPA due to his missing emails.
Ping to post #21.
Thanks for that information. Didn’t know about that.
Thanks! If there is a true environmental concern, then it should be the issue, and I agree the EPA and others should be prosecuted for not properly following the law.
Actually too many locals depend on the Bristol Bay fishery for their day to day sustenance; not worth the jobs created.
Imagine if every grocery in the lower 48 was infected with ebola and you all had to eat the food just because the govt said everything's just fine and dandy folks. Salmon is the main food source for people living there. Alaskans don't want outsiders or Alaskans destroying that food resource. Them Indians out there don't eat White Man's food.
Totally agree..Not a big fan of government but I have to agree with the protection agencies on things like this. Just like the Atlantic Salmon here in New England. Hopefully the cod fishery isn’t ruined forever. Won’t know that for awhile. People should realize that when it’s gone, it is most likely gone forever.
“People should realize that when it’s gone, it is most likely gone forever.”
People in the lower 48 think like old time Key Westers - food grows in the can. They do not care as long as there are cans available - they’ll eat it whatever is in it.
They think that the food they buy is always there in the grocery stores, which food somehow appears on the shelves ... the rest of it never occurs to them, as it doesn’t seem to affect their daily life. They stood by while the enviros shut down San Joaquin valley farmers and never blinked when the price of vegetables rose and the quality fell.
If pizza was a vegetable grown in San Joaquin, or beer was a fish caught in AK, and both of those were taken away or destroyed to make room for a minnow or a mine, they’d howl so loud that the WH walls would shake, Congress critters would find their shorts around their collective ankles and so on.
“Imagine if every grocery in the lower 48 was infected with ebola and you all had to eat the food just because the govt said everything’s just fine and dandy folks”
They’d beleive and eat it anyway; the govenment doesn’t lie ...
Thats pure propaganda... you should be ashamed..
the metal deposits have been there for a millennium..
haven’t harmed the fish one bit...
You’re spouting liberal agitprop... STOP IT!..
Bookmark.
Numerous creeks run off from the volcanic areas with natural PH levels below 2.5. in 1984 the summit lake (Ph2.3) of Mount Chiginagak drained into the King Salmon river. in 1985 we caught 40 million red salmon out of the drainage. The bottom line is that the fish are a whole lot less fragile. than the greenies would have you believe.
Ever here any more hype that for "Copper River Red Salmon? Besides being a brilliant marketing job, few realize that the copper river reds spawn in the tailings of the old Kennikott copper mine.
The communities of Bristol bay are another thing entirely. Six weeks of wonderful abundance are followed by 10 months of dependence, alcoholism, depression and the highest suicide rate in the country. These people could really use the year round jobs the mine would bring.
I think the biggest “Help America” project could be the widespread publishing the names, phone numbers, email addresses, and physical addresses are for every EPA employee. That’s what I think.
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Why stop there ? ? ?
I think you had better do a little reading as to who lowered the award, in reality it was the 9th Circuit Court of appeals.
excerpt from Litigation and cleanup costs. If you read further you'll discover SCOTUS also became involved:
"Meanwhile, Exxon appealed the ruling, and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the original judge, Russel Holland, to reduce the punitive damages. On December 6, 2002, the judge announced that he had reduced the damages to $4 billion, which he concluded was justified by the facts of the case and was not grossly excessive. Exxon appealed again and the case returned to court to be considered in light of a recent Supreme Court ruling in a similar case, which caused Judge Holland to increase the punitive damages to $4.5 billion, plus interest."
a preliminary injunction demonstrates a high likelihood of success on the merits.
The EPA is out on this.
After 2016 a GOP administration should purge WHOLESALE the entire desk jockey ranks.
Well there you go, ey.
bump
Couldn't agree more.
The only problem I have with the Pebble Mine IS...
Having a Canadian(foreign) Company bogard the venture..
I hear you.
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