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EPA dropped salmon protection after Trump met with Alaska governor
CNN ^ | Aug. 9, 2019 | Scott Bronstein, Curt Devine, Drew Griffin and Ashley Hackett

Posted on 08/09/2019 9:30:52 PM PDT by Innovative

The Environmental Protection Agency told staff scientists that it was no longer opposing a controversial Alaska mining project that could devastate one of the world's most valuable wild salmon fisheries just one day after President Trump met with Alaska's governor, CNN has learned.

The EPA publicly announced the reversal July 30, but EPA staff sources tell CNN that they were informed of the decision a month earlier, during a hastily arranged video conference after Trump's meeting with Gov. Mike Dunleavy. The governor, a supporter of the project, emerged from that meeting saying the president assured him that he's "doing everything he can to work with us on our mining concerns."

The news came as a "total shock" to some top EPA scientists who were planning to oppose the project on environmental grounds, according to sources. Those sources asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution.

The copper-and-gold mine planned near Bristol Bay, Alaska, known as Pebble Mine, was blocked by the Obama administration's EPA after scientists found that the mine would cause "complete loss of" the bay's fish habitat.

EPA insiders tell CNN that the timing of the agency's internal announcement suggests Trump was personally involved in the decision.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; mine; salmon; trump
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To: bakkentom

before B Clinton, the US was the worlds largest supplier of rare earths, after B Clinton closed US mines and converted them into parks etc, China took the lead.

The Pebble Mine’s principle minerals are porphyry copper, gold, and molybdenum, not rare earths.


41 posted on 08/10/2019 4:43:03 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Innovative
The copper-and-gold mine planned near Bristol Bay, Alaska, known as Pebble Mine, was blocked by the Obama administration's EPA after scientists found that the mine would cause "complete loss of" the bay's fish habitat.

Obama's EPA were the incompetents who poisoned the Animas River in 2015.

42 posted on 08/10/2019 5:00:17 AM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: dp0622

I would argue that wiping out the entire salmon popultion is an exageration with malice

I have seen nothing that proves the mine will actually pollute the waters.

The hysteria is similar to the damn stopping snail datrer hysteria.

Fake hysteria


43 posted on 08/10/2019 5:12:56 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.btyC. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Innovative

A cousin used to fish out of Dillingham. When he complained about the future mine I suggested the fishermen form a group and buy the mineral rights. Crickets.


44 posted on 08/10/2019 5:46:53 AM PDT by sasquatch
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To: Innovative

But what did the brown bears, bears of color) have to say.


45 posted on 08/10/2019 6:16:25 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Opportunities multiply as they are seized.)
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To: Gene Eric
I get it. You have a commitment.

Not really sure what you mean by that, however, I was just confirming your statement.

46 posted on 08/10/2019 7:20:54 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: dp0622

Yes, just like they were against oil pipelines because it would hurt wildlife.

But after the pipelines were built, the wildlife actually increased, I saw photos of animals happily walking on top of the pipelines.


47 posted on 08/10/2019 8:23:48 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

Salmon?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaRRMbPwdwc


48 posted on 08/10/2019 8:41:36 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Undecided 2012

I don’t know. Haven’t visited the area since before the poisoning.


49 posted on 08/10/2019 1:31:04 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: dp0622

Oh come on! You know hyperbole when you see it! This isn’t going to harm fish at all.


50 posted on 08/10/2019 3:04:31 PM PDT by vpintheak (Stop making stupid people famous!)
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To: vpintheak

Well i’m not taking them in even if it is!!

It’s not that big of a house and I hear they are slobs!

:)


51 posted on 08/10/2019 10:38:01 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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