Beth Shaw, Resourceful Earth News:
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) recently wrote a letter to the EPA urging the agency to halt the Pebble Mine Project in Alaska. The Alaskan copper and gold mine project has been in limbo for more than three years – with $120 million spent to research how to have minimal impact on the surrounding environment near Bristol Bay. Once it has been officially proposed, the Pebble site will have to go through 67 federal, state, and local agencies for approvals and permits.
If this isn’t stringent enough, I don’t know what is. Now, Cantwell won’t even let the process work. She is changing the game altogether by moving to preempt the environmental review process the EPA put in place. The consequences couldn’t be more serious if Cantwell succeeds in her efforts. If she succeeds, ANY Natural Resource Extraction in the United States will not be safe from the EPA and radical environmentalists.
As Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski wrote, a preemptive veto of the Pebble Mine project will expand the powers of the EPA and “could have widespread and unintended consequences for any development project, including airports and other infrastructure.” Cantwell’s actions make a mockery of the federal environmental review process and leave Americans even more dependent on foreign sources to meet our needs for natural resources and energy. More American jobs will be lost and it will be another blow to our already shaky economy.
Here’s how you can join us in fighting for America’s energy independence:
Email Senator Cantwell’s office here.
Write a letter to the editor of your local newspapers.
Sign the petition and use hash tag #GivePebbleAChance on Twitter.
Use your blog, Facebook and Twitter to let your friends know what is happening under the radar!
Get more information at Resourceful Earth News including how to contact Senator Maria Cantwell. You can also get more information about this important issue here. Sign our twitter petition. Please retweet the article using the hash tag #GivePebbleAChance. Contact information for Sen. Cantwell is here.
Has the EPA gotten around to beginning the process to return Manhattan Island to the pristine deglaciated forested greenfield it once was? No? Bastards.
Either the planning system operates in the same way for all, every time, or there is nepotism and corruption. The rule of law exists, or it doesn’t. Similar. But with added UN flavourings.
Hey SW, is “travellers” Brit code for Roma? Or for some other people? Or what?
I agree that the Green Mafia holdup is abominable, but I wouldn’t support Lisa Murkowski even if she were campaigning for the defeat of Barack Obama.
Kinda sorta, sdferr. Includes Irish/non-Roma. Remember “Snatch”?
Snatch? Yeah, I distantly recall getting some once.
Silly goose.
ah-ha! movie! about caravans! heh
thanks SW.
Yeah, I get that. I do.
But just think of it as supporting everybody else agains the EPA and you can live with yourself all of a sudden.
Kinda the same feeling you’re going to have before pulling the lever for Mitt Romney in 14 months.
Caravans, dags, tomfoolery. All of human experience in one flicker.
Kinda the same feeling you’re going to have before pulling the lever for Mitt Romney in 14 months.
I just threw up a little bit in my mouth.
Only lever I’ll ever pull for Mittens is the trapdoor in a gallows.
[…] hEPA sister out? As Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski wrote, a preemptive veto of the Pebble Mine project will expand the powers of the EPA and “could have widespread and unintended consequences for any development project, including airports and other infrastructure.” Cantwell’s actions make a mockery of the federal environmental review process and leave Americans even more dependent on foreign sources to meet our needs for natural resources and energy. More American jobs will be lost and it will be another blow to our already shaky economy. […]
anything that kicks Lisa Murkowski in her teeth works for me – and corrupt Alaska rep Don Young it should be noted was one of only 7 Team R votes for encouraging the NLRB to maximally indulge its most fascist tendencies
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While it’s academic at this point, in what sane world does a Washington Senator have any standing telling Alaska what it can and can’t do, when the activity in question cannot possibly have any effect on Washington State — other than, perhaps, by competing with Washington’s own copper/gold mines.
If that’s the justification (which seems unlikely), the question “So?” comes to mind.
Cantwell wouldn’t pull this stunt without knowing that Murcockski isn’t on board with the mine (translation: the miners failed to whet the Senator coke hound’s beak.)
going green
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Are you sure it’s spelled “Cantwell”?
This is what makes me so angry.
Another government twat waffle being a government twat waffle. And, since I don’t live in her district, she will send me an e-mail saying: “I’m just SO sorry! I am too busy with my constituents to pay any attention to you”.
Thank God I am not 22 years old. I wouldn’t want to live the next sixty years with butt stupid morons like this as our representatives.
“the rare earth element europium oxide”
That’s not an element. Europium is an element. Oxygen is an element. Europium oxide (Eu2O3) is a compound of those two elements. Geez.
Hey, wasn’t the argument for keeping Murky in the Senate that she had all that seniority and pull and stuff?
rally round the corrupt murkowskiwhore is not a fun game
That’s a big Twinkie.
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