From CNN today : http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/22/politics/pebble-epa-bristol-bay-invs/index.html
This is what we are up against with the current “EPA” in Washington. Scott Pruitt the darling of the extraction industry has made his position perfectly clear on what he believes the Environmental PROTECTION Agency should be doing.
From the article:
"Within hours of meeting with a mining company CEO, the new head of the US Environmental Protection Agency directed his staff to withdraw a plan to protect the watershed of Bristol Bay, Alaska, one of the most valuable wild salmon fisheries on Earth, according to interviews and government emails obtained by CNN."
"The meeting between EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Tom Collier, CEO of Pebble Limited Partnership, took place on May 1, Collier and his staff confirmed in an interview with CNN. At 10:36 a.m. that same day, the EPA's acting general counsel, Kevin Minoli, sent an email to agency staff saying the administrator had "directed" the agency to withdraw an Obama-era proposal to protect the ecologically valuable wetland in southwest Alaska from certain mining activities."
"In 2014, after three years of peer-reviewed study, the Obama administration's EPA invoked a rarely used provision of the Clean Water Act to try to protect Bristol Bay after finding that a mine "would result in complete loss of fish habitat due to elimination, dewatering, and fragmentation of streams, wetlands, and other aquatic resources" in some areas of the bay."
"All of these losses would be irreversible," the agency (Obama EPA administration) said."
There is no economic reason to put a Copper Mine in this sensitive area. Currently the price of copper is in the toilet, at half the price it was in 2011.
This is about putting dollars in the pocket of Pebble Limited Partnership. Pebble is in fact a front for Northern Dynasty Miners a CANADIAN company. NDM is in the toilet also, having gone from $22 per share to $1.50 a share.
Here are the facts on Pebble from Kerrisdale Capital Management: “Northern Dynasty's key asset, the low-grade Pebble deposit, is not commercially viable: mining it would require so much upfront investment that it would actually destroy value.”
“Kerrisdale believes Northern Dynasty's former partners concluded that the Pebble project had a negative present value – an assessment that Northern Dynasty has spent years trying to conceal from the public.”
This kind of stuff is now the normal with the current administration. Everyone who is an advocate of Public Lands, needs to recognize that these Swap Creatures are NOT benevolent, they are not interested in our needs as sportspersons. They are about greed and earnings per share.
Don’t carry water for these guys; they will throw it in your face. Don’t give them an inch; they will take a hundred miles.
We need foot soldiers to make those calls to Congress 202-224-3121.
Cheers,
Mark
Ye shall be free to roam.
Note: Please no posts about the evil left wing media. No one is stopping you from referencing all those Public Lands stories from the other side……….Oh, there are none.
This is what we are up against with the current “EPA” in Washington. Scott Pruitt the darling of the extraction industry has made his position perfectly clear on what he believes the Environmental PROTECTION Agency should be doing.
From the article:
"Within hours of meeting with a mining company CEO, the new head of the US Environmental Protection Agency directed his staff to withdraw a plan to protect the watershed of Bristol Bay, Alaska, one of the most valuable wild salmon fisheries on Earth, according to interviews and government emails obtained by CNN."
"The meeting between EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Tom Collier, CEO of Pebble Limited Partnership, took place on May 1, Collier and his staff confirmed in an interview with CNN. At 10:36 a.m. that same day, the EPA's acting general counsel, Kevin Minoli, sent an email to agency staff saying the administrator had "directed" the agency to withdraw an Obama-era proposal to protect the ecologically valuable wetland in southwest Alaska from certain mining activities."
"In 2014, after three years of peer-reviewed study, the Obama administration's EPA invoked a rarely used provision of the Clean Water Act to try to protect Bristol Bay after finding that a mine "would result in complete loss of fish habitat due to elimination, dewatering, and fragmentation of streams, wetlands, and other aquatic resources" in some areas of the bay."
"All of these losses would be irreversible," the agency (Obama EPA administration) said."
There is no economic reason to put a Copper Mine in this sensitive area. Currently the price of copper is in the toilet, at half the price it was in 2011.
This is about putting dollars in the pocket of Pebble Limited Partnership. Pebble is in fact a front for Northern Dynasty Miners a CANADIAN company. NDM is in the toilet also, having gone from $22 per share to $1.50 a share.
Here are the facts on Pebble from Kerrisdale Capital Management: “Northern Dynasty's key asset, the low-grade Pebble deposit, is not commercially viable: mining it would require so much upfront investment that it would actually destroy value.”
“Kerrisdale believes Northern Dynasty's former partners concluded that the Pebble project had a negative present value – an assessment that Northern Dynasty has spent years trying to conceal from the public.”
This kind of stuff is now the normal with the current administration. Everyone who is an advocate of Public Lands, needs to recognize that these Swap Creatures are NOT benevolent, they are not interested in our needs as sportspersons. They are about greed and earnings per share.
Don’t carry water for these guys; they will throw it in your face. Don’t give them an inch; they will take a hundred miles.
We need foot soldiers to make those calls to Congress 202-224-3121.
Cheers,
Mark
Ye shall be free to roam.
Note: Please no posts about the evil left wing media. No one is stopping you from referencing all those Public Lands stories from the other side……….Oh, there are none.
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