EPA accused of sabotage…again

Good day all. Our wonderful and highly efficient Environmental Protection Agency, (Stop laughing, work with me here), has once again shown just how efficient it is at destroying America.

A few weeks ago, the EPA announced that it wasn’t going to approve a new gold mine in Alaska, prompting a number of people to rip into them again for making a political and not a scientific ruling. The proposed mine is in Alaska about 200 miles from Anchorage. The details are pretty…detailed. Here they are from Fox News:

The Environmental Protection Agency is under fire for a preemptive strike against a massive copper and gold mine in Alaska, where hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of jobs are at stake.

Leave it to the EPA to launch a preemptive strike on prosperity. They would like nothing better then to evacuate all humans from Alaska and remove any indication that humans ever lived there. This includes the Inuit, (Eskimos). To continue…

The controversy centers on Pebble Mine, located 200 miles southeast of Anchorage. It is the largest deposit of copper and gold in North America. But environmental groups and fishermen, worried about the impact to the world’s most abundant salmon run in Bristol Bay, fought the mine from the beginning.

“It was people from Alaska that requested the EPA come in and take action,” said Tim Bristol, of Trout Unlimited in Anchorage. “We just don’t feel like we’re getting our concerns heard by the state of Alaska.”

The EPA did act, using the 1972 Clean Water Act for the first time ever to stop a mine before the owners even came out with a detailed plan.

From what I’ve read, the mining company hadn’t even put up a formal plan yet. Also it wasn’t “The people of Alaska, it looks like it was one small group. As usual, the EPA acted without proper authority.

The company behind the mine claims the agency went too far.

“The intent of the EPA is to take on an authority that nowhere has Congress given them, to go across America and determine where development should occur and where it shouldn’t occur before anyone ever files a permit,” Pebble Limited Partnership CEO Tom Collier said.

So Pebble Limited hadn’t even asked for a permit to start digging? Now I’m certainly no expert, (As many commentators have noted before on other posts), but doesn’t part of the permitting process also include what’s called “Mitigation?” By that, I mean they have a plan to restore the land once they’re done with it as well as make sure they don’t damage anything like salmon runs during operations?

In 2011, Northern Dynasty finally issued an economic assessment of the Pebble Mine. It outlined three possible mines ranging from 25 years, up to 78 years. The smallest mine would extract 2 billion tons of material. The largest would mine 6.5 billion tons. The scenarios were used by the EPA in its study of the mine’s potential impacts on the Bristol Bay watershed.

Hmm, this sounds more like what they could dig out of the ground to me, rather then a detailed plan. Basically trying to determine if it was worth the money to dig the ore out. It doesn’t look like it was a detailed operations plan at all. (Which would include things like protecting the environment and cleaning up the site when mining was concluded)

Pebble officials argue their economic assessment was not a mine plan and included none of the extensive mitigation program.

“It was an imaginary mine the EPA invented,” said Washington Examiner columnist Ron Arnold, who has written extensively on Pebble Mine. “You can’t respect anything the EPA says.”

The EPA is out of control, and has approached levels of police state tactics. To put it bluntly, they are no longer listening to anyone. This includes Congress and the Courts. In killing this mine, and there is some question on whether they can or not, they have once again announced that they don’t care one whit about humans, only about worms and trees.

I’m not going to go into that paranoid nonsense about “Agenda 21.” I don’t believe there is a concerted conspiracy to depopulate the middle of the country and force everyone into cities on the coasts.

However, actions like this from the EPA do nothing but give ammo to those people, be it sending in swat teams for no real reason other then intimidation, or killing projects like the Pebble Mine before they’ve even formally made an application. That is one reason I say state governors should just tell the EPA that they are no longer welcome in their states and back it up with the use of force, if required. In my opinion, this should be handled locally between the mining company, the locals, the rest of the residents of Alaska and the state government. The EPA can go feed themselves to polar bears.

Thatisall

~The Angry Webmaster~

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