Posted on 07/24/2012 1:02:54 PM PDT by Carriage Hill
An Alaskan mine that may contain more than $500 billion in gold, copper and other minerals will never get dug if environmentalists get their way.
The proposed Pebble Mine, near the headwaters of Bristol Bay in southwest Alaska, could yield a staggering 107 million ounces of gold, 80 billion pounds of copper and 5.6 billion pounds of molybdenum, which is used to make steel alloys. Pebble Partnership, which wants to do the digging, is so confident of the bounty beneath the ground it has spent five years and $107 million monitoring the soil, water and air in order to assure the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) it can mine without causing ecological damage.
"The quantity, grade and continuity of mineralization at Pebble ... demonstrate the project's potential to be one of the great metal producers of the 21st century," said Rod Thiessen, president and CEO of Northern Dynasty Minerals, which is working on the project with London-based Anglo American.
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..it will be held up until every senator and congresscritter gets their “fair” share.
The EPA should be completely abolished and its functions turned over the states where they belong.
Looks like Obunga has managed to populate the EPA with true zealots.
We used to call that treason.
Lots of “No Pebble Mine” people out here in Bristol Bay.
Pebble Mine could bring many jobs to the area but people are being brainwashed that it could kill the salmon runs.
I don’t see why compromise cannot be reached. Allow the Pebble Mine to happen and if the fishing is impacted, close it down. If the fishing is not impacted, then envirals lose credibility...again.
All (except 60-80 I can think of) corrupt, criminal congresscritters should be removed and “stood against a wall” to clean-out the filth/garbage/trash. The entire US Gov’t bureaucracy is so infiltrated w/ enviro-wackos and commies, it needs a thorough “cleansing”, too.
Our founders declared that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable rights. Yet here we are wearing ourselves out fighting the government for the freedoms that founded this country.
” If the fishing is not impacted, then envirals lose credibility...again.”
That’s PRECISELY WHY it’ll never happen.
$500 billion is a huge amount of money. Somebody has a dammed waste area in mind ~ and EPA, etc. fear it may spill.
It wouldn't if it were built like a serious dam ~ with concrete and steel, and millions of tons of concrete shipped in at enormous cost from the lower 48 and China.
But what's a couple of billion bucks when you are talking about $500 billion?
I think a deal is possible.
Stand the treasonous bastards against a wall!
That is 1/2 a year of Obamacare.
Entrepreneurs will be able to create the dam and make it safer for the salmon and the bears. I suggest you send the article and your response to Romney’s PAC and give him some more ammo. I just wish he would go pro-life.
If this is to be a heap-leach operation, there is every reason to have the strictest controls.
I agree; safety is paramount. But the EPA won’t consider a deal. They’re 95% controlled by enviro-wackos who don’t want to be proven wrong that it can be done safely. If it can’t, then it shouldn’t be done until the technology catches-up to the economics of reality.
Obama: “You’re not going to build that!”
Something’s definitely wrong here, isn’t it? I think we both know “what” it is...
At the very least, that we know right now. Betcha it’s much more, in the final accounting.
Obstructionist-In-Chief.
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