When it comes
to a controversial proposed copper and gold mine near Alaska's Bristol Bay, the Environmental Protection Agency long has insisted
that it is assessing, not regulating. At least not yet.
The EPA has
repeatedly said it has no plan to pre-emptively veto the mine proposal via a
regulatory hydrogen bomb at its disposal in the Clean Water Act -- certainly
not while the agency is working over its much-disputed
assessment of a theoretical large-scale mine's impact on the Bristol
Bay Watershed.
EPA officials
for years have also claimed native Alaskan tribes asked the agency to conduct
the study. "We launched the study
in response to petitions from federally recognized tribes and others who wrote
to EPA with concerns about how large-scale mining could impact Bristol Bay
fisheries," EPA has said.
Those
assertions may ring hollow after a seemingly benign profile on a former EPA
official appeared in the Redoubt Reporter, a community newspaper
serving Alaska's Central Kenai Peninsula. The publication has become a subject
of interest for a Republican-led investigation into the EPA's assessment and
its expansive powers…..To Read More…..
My Take – If
anyone has any doubt that the environmental movement has a seropis; degree of veto
power over EPA decision making, or there isn’t a conspiracy going on between
the EPA bureaucrats and environmentalists I hope this is the beginning of wisdom
for you.
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