Anti-Pebble Mine agenda may have originated within the EPA !

The Daily Caller continues to pump out the pro Pebble bullshit.

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He has "serious questions about how a mine can co-exist with fish in Bristol Bay."

That is a quote from evolution skeptic Congressman Paul Broun who recently chaired a congressional hearing on the Pebble Mine. Must be just a bit troubling for Pebble's PR firm when someone who believes evolution is a lie from hell is questioning the ability of Pebble to coexist with fish.

Despite the potential impacts on the fishery, Broun says the EPA shouldn't stop the mine before developers are ready to submit their plan.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2013/08/01/3003780/congress-pushes-epa-on-giant-pebble.html#storylink=cpy

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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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The Daily Caller - Both Liberals and Conservatives Support the Pebble Mine

Here is one notable conservative who did not support the Pebble Mine

Some pure pro Pebble bullshit courtesy of The Daily Caller.

Be sure to scroll though the comments.

Here's more recent Daily Caller pro Pebble BS.

In other news, the House Science, Space and Technology subcommittee on Oversight, which is chaired by this clown, will host a hearing this week on Pebble.

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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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Iliamna Village Council makes a Pebble Mine-sized mistake

It's not surprising that the five-member Iliamna Village Council, four of whom are employed now or have been employed by the Pebble Partnership, would be critical of the EPA’s Bristol Bay watershed assessment. The council requested that its own handpicked scientist review the EPA’s work and prepare comments to the EPA for the council’s submission, take that EPA!

So they hired Dr. Donald Macalady, professor emeritus of chemistry and geochemistry at the Colorado School of Mines, and the school’s previous director of the Center for Environmental Risk for the job.

The result? In addition to other various environmental nastiness, Macaldy's report said the mine would likely eliminate the salmon spawning runs “in a large portion of the area’s watersheds,” and that this “elimination will be essentially irreversible.”

Oops!

Unfortunately for the Village Council their President Lorene Anelon neglected to read Dr. Macalady's report before formally submitting it the EPA, assuming it "was all on the same page as the village."

Hilarity ensues.

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