new Spokes Person
Posted on 12/22/2017 11:05:34 AM PST by jazusamo
A proposed gold and copper mine that nearly got buried by the Obama administration moved closer to reality when its developers filed new permits with the federal government.
The company behind Pebble Mine, in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, were poised Friday to file a wetlands-fill permit with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The permit application by the Pebble Limited Partnership, a subsidiary of Northern Dynasty Minerals, marks a milestone for the project that has seen renewed interest since President Trump appointed former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the EPA.
“At the outset of 2017, we established three ambitious corporate objectives for Northern Dynasty and the Pebble Project,” Northern Dynasty President & CEO Ron Thiessen said in a statement. “We committed to reaching a resolution with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to restore the Pebble Project to normal course permitting, to re-partnering on the Pebble Project and to initiating permitting under [National Environmental Policy Act.] As we approach the end of the year, I’m proud to report that we will hit our mark on all three important milestones.”
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
—thanks for your great answer to the above jerk —(from one who spent the productive part of his life in both underground and surface mining)—
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Thank you for all your hard work and sacrifice!
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Unless you fish Bristol Bay gathering most of your living from it, or are a salmon. Food is obviously not a priority (get yours from China!), nor is the US Balance of Trade. Just a huge loss for all concerned ...
Did you read the entire article including the last paragraph?
Perfumed princes sitting at their desks, pushing paper back and forth, with a sheepskin on the wall are SO much smarter than those little idiots that have physical skills and talents.
You know, the ones who actually DO STUFF, make stuff, as opposed to the purest form of “work”, that being the mental masturbation of most office chores.
Posts like that one remind me of the screen writer complaining about “How hard it was to rewrite and reduce a script, then have to write it again and reduce it some more.” He went on about it for the better part of 3 minutes about how hard it was to take and condense someone else’s words for a third party to speak them.
Feh!
The Kilchers wear anti Pebble Mine hats.
Somehow that doesn’t surprise me. :)
Ever been to Bristol bay? I have worked there.
2&1/2 months of plenty when the fish are running, the rest of the year is cloaked in depression, alcoholism, dependency and suicide.
The folks that live there need year round jobs!
Fished the Bay, False Pass, Cordova, Southeast - 30 years.
Killing off the salmon runs with the run off will not do anyone any good. alcoholism, dependency and suicide is a way of life for much of AK regardless of jobs.
Not for the Southeast Alaska salmon, halibut and crab fisheries. For them this will be a disaster and a major economic blow to the region.
Real nice, making the Nazi/Hitler connection.
Very similar to 0bama, the NY Slimes and leftist media comparison to President Trump.
"2018 WILL BE A FANTASTIC YEAR FOR COPPER MINERS"
Minister of Propaganda — not the comparison you’re thinking about rather to the corporate lie being told about how nicey nice everything will be - just hunky dory - peach keen and don’t mind the occasional holding pond run off. Fish are overrated as is the US Balance of Trade to which the BB fisheries and Bering sea fisheries are a huge contributor. Don’t need them. Much easier to by food at the supermarket - the place where all food comes from, don’cha know - open a box, can, packed in China from which you can get the chicken poop flavor and cuprous oxide, aka bottom paint super-flavors - oh my!
In 1912 Mt Katami blew two and a half cubic miles of sulfuric volcanic ash into the region. The major lakes (where the salmon spawn) are still brightly colored by suspended mud and chemicals and produce record salmon runs year after year. Hard to imagine that a mine can equal the devestation that Mother Nature has wrought.
BTTT
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