Posted on 03/31/2014 7:22:43 PM PDT by DannyTN
80 billion lbs. of metal could 'wipe out American import dependency'
On the heels of the Obama administration clamping down on oil and gas exploration and President Obama declaring what many consider to be a war on coal, environmental groups are now urging the government to deny exploration of the world’s largest known copper reserve before the permitting process even begins.
... “When a mining project goes into the permitting process, there are local avenues for some of the permits; there are state avenues for some of the permits and federal as well,” McGroarty said. “So it’s multi-layered, and it takes an average of seven to 10 years for a mine to get through that process once begun. I have looked at Pebble, and my understanding is that they would require upward of 60 different types of permits from the state, local and federal levels. So there would be an enormous amount of scrutiny put on the mine plan.
“What some of the environmental groups are saying is they don’t want that process to even begin. ...
McGroarty said if the EPA starts down this road, the economic impact on this nation could be immense.
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“The Rats won’t be in power forever.”
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That is absolutely correct, one way or another they will be done for. See my tag line.
the rinos will be next. no difference for us, they do nothing for us.
Wonder how the miners at Silver City NM will feel as they voted for the “O”.
But the bureaucrats in the EPA will.
That’s the problem.
the railroad industry (including the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, which is wholly owned by Warren Buffett)
BNSF is a publicly held company, through Berkshire Hathaway B shares.
that’s what these Aholes have in mind for us....
If pollution didn’t cross state lines, I’d agree with you. But it does, and that means some of it needs to be dealt with at a federal level.
The proposed mine is in the Bristol Bay, Alaska watershed - while that means virtually nothing to most FRers, the watershed is the home of the last remaining largest run of Sockeye (Red) salmon in the world - the largest was the Columbia River run which was destroyed by the Columbia River dams in the 1940s - the only people to protest and predict the outcome were the commercial fishermen who caught the salmon. Today, millions of Federal tax dollars are spent on a semi-fruitless effort to barge the remaining fry around those same dams and to create bypasses to allow adults to get up river.
No matter what some mining company proposes to prevent highly toxic waste water spills, or what permits it obtains will guarantee that no spill will occur. One small accidental spill would be enough to decimate the runs to the rivers.
As a former commercial fisherman who fished Bristol Bay, I can testify that any mine in the watershed would spell the end of its lucrative salmon fishery. The land is very fragile and in a very geologically active area. So would you chose the destruction of the salmon runs, the destruction of an historic and lucrative fishery over the production of copper?
Keep in mind while you decide that the most productive farmland in the US has either now been paved over - New Jersey, Washington State, and lately the man-made drought in the San Joaquin Valley, CA, the third largest Sockeye run to the Frazier River, Vancouver, Canada destroyed by a landslide while building a railroad (that run was recovered by the financial sacrifice of US and Canadian commercial Sockeye fisherman over 50 years - something that would not happen today in the same situation),
Is the production of minerals more important than the access to cheap, healthy food? The food on your grocer's shelves does not grow in cans nor appear fully formed in packages. Is your preference to eat food grown or caught in China or some other country? Does crunching down on copper ore give you a satisfying meal?
“It’s federal government overreach into States powers.”
It’s more than that. The EPA is a corrupt and criminal arm of the executive branch that illegally writes legislation. The fact that the Congress allows this illegal usurpation of its law-making power tells us all we need to know about the federal legislature - that it, too, is criminal and corrupt.
Giving any bureaucracy law-making power is a violation of the Constitution.
What the EPA did in Rapanos v US was enough for me to justify the arrest of these neo-fascist EPA goons for sedition.
Apparently people will allow it. Most of white America is devoted to a life of eating, drinking, drugging, copulating, evacuating the bowels, snoring and attending The Games.” The Third World is of course busy finishing their conquest and starting the sack.(The roving mobs in Kentucky come to mind.)
It is well past time we Impeached Obama and Criminalize the EPA.
It is a year old. My bad.
In this case, I was on WND and saw the article, not realizing it was an old article, I posted it. I think sometimes WND recycles old articles to their front page when they don’t have enough content.
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