Having just concluded a mini-vacation which ended up costing me more is filling my gas tank than the vacation itself, I wonder to myself, are we just sheep? Where is the outrage? We all lined up like good foot soldiers at the gas pumps, no complaining, but I did leave a package label titled “Thanks Obama”. I encourage everyone to print up a bunch, and the next time you fill up, leave a label. So Lisa Jackson continues unabated. Right in Sarah’s home turf. Hey, Mitt, how about letting us hear from the gal at the convention? How about talking about this gas business?
“To be stopped before the process begins and subject it to a hypothetical is a new wrinkle, and that can chill capital, that can chill investment, and the jobs, in this particular economy, that we want to see,” he continued. “It’s going to have a very negative effect on the manufacturing process in the U.S.”
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) preemptive assessment of the Pebble Mine in Alaska could have a “chilling effect” on $220 billion in investments, according to the Brattle Group, an economic and financial consulting firm.
In May, the EPA released its watershed assessment of large-scale mining by Pebble LP at Bristol Bay, which could be one of the largest copper and gold mines in the world, and expressed concerns over impact the mine would have on local salmon habitats and surrounding wetlands.
Under the Clean Water Act, operations that dump “dredge or fill materials” into wetlands, rivers, lakes, or streams are required to obtain a Section 404 permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The EPA can revoke this permit if there are “unacceptable adverse impacts on municipal water supplies, shellfish beds and fishery areas, wildlife, or recreational areas.”
Read more: Daily Caller
August 19, 2012 at 4:15 pm
Alaska should secede from the union and join Canada. Texas too.
August 19, 2012 at 6:14 pm
and I will be happy to join the crowd. Thanks for stopping by.
August 16, 2012 at 6:05 pm
EPA = Economic Prevention Agency
I spent my entire career in ming and know very well how difficult it is to work with the EPA. They have been totally infiltrated by radical environmentalist.
August 16, 2012 at 6:13 pm
No one will take a chance on any kind of investment now with the potential, after the fact, the EPA can shut down the whole investment on some whim. This is really getting totally out of control.
August 16, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Here’s the root question: Why would a federal regulator care more about Alaska’s lucrative Salmon and seafood industry than Alaskans and the state government? Answer is, they don’t.
August 16, 2012 at 12:36 pm
And our local trout stream recently was damged by flood waters. A local watershed group wanted to install rock weirs to avoid further erosion and to protect a number of homes. You can guess the answer. The Army corp of engineers said no on behalf of the EPA.