"The real story here is the EPA’s abject wrongdoing in pursuit of its advocacy agenda"

John Shively Chairman of the Pebble Partnership penned a letter to the editor of the Washington in response to their recent story on the "Pebble Mine debate."

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Will Team Obama ignore the rule of law and preemptively veto Pebble mine?

That's the headline for an opinion piece penned by Pebble CEO John Shivley that appeared yesterday on Fox News.

And judging by comments like these......

Hire mercenaries and build the mine anyway!  "F"  the feds and the tree-humpers!

There's no better strategy for rallying the wing nut base than referencing our President.

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I'm not a mining person. My degree is in political science.

So maybe you should stop criticizing the real scientists over at the EPA?

John Shively, CEO of Pebble, explains why he believes the Pebble Mine would revitalize the economy of the community surrounding Bristol Bay. He discusses his organization's efforts to address environmental concerns about the project and responds to critics of the proposal.

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Is the Pebble CEO walking away from responsibility on future mine closure?

Recently the New York Times published an op-ed from Native Alaskan and Olympic snowboarder Callan Chythlook-Sifsof which incuded a link to this video of John Shively talking about future mine closure scenarios.

I mean, obviously, there are commercial fishermen that have concerns

According to Pebble Partnership CEO John Shively the Alaska commercial salmon fishery is losing its importance.

As of June 21st there were more than 1.3-million reasons why the Bristol Bay Alaska salmon fishery is still very important.

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If you want to see more of Shively in action hit the image above.

“They take our resource, and they go somewhere else to spend their money.”

Here's what Pebble Partnership CEO (Chief Enema Officer) John Shivley had to say while on a lobbying trip to D.C. last week.

“You have to understand that the reason five senators from the West Coast can write a letter about the salmon industry, is because so many salmon fisherman don’t live in Alaska,” he said on Capitol Hill. “They take our resource, and they go somewhere else to spend their money.”

Unfortunatley for John there are four multinational problems with his line of reasoning.

The Pebble Limited Partnership is 50% owned by London-based Anglo American and 50% owned by The Northern Dynasty Partnership, which is a wholly owned Canadian-based subsidiary of Northern Dynasty Minerals Limited. Important stockholders in Northern Dynasty Minerals Limited include Kennecott which is a wholly owned affiliate of Rio Tinto, a British-Australian multinational metals and mining corporation and Mitsubishi, a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies.

So who really are the ones who are going to exploit the resources of Bristol Bay and spend the profits elsewhere? This is the same Shively who recently claimed the mine was going to add 15 billion dollars to the GDP of the United States.

This wasn't the only bullshit Shively was trying to spin.

He was also quoted as saying the commercial salmon industry in Alaska is losing its importance.

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