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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Jul 13, 2017, 08:53 PM Jul 2017

EPA resurrects big, salmon-killing Alaska mine

President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency wants to abandon restrictions that would block a huge proposed Alaska mine, its announcement coming in the middle of the Bristol Bay salmon season.

The EPA wants to withdraw a 2014 determination, made under the Clean Water Act, that the proposed Pebble Mine would threaten the world's greatest sockeye salmon fishery  and the 14,000 jobs that come with it.

The Trump EPA will take comment on the reversal over the next 90 days. And the agency can expect plenty of it.  

The about-face drew immediate, furious reaction from Alaska native groups, including the influential Bristol Bay Native Corp.

"Thousands of fishermen and women are currently in Bristol Bay participating in what is proving to be a tremendously successful commercial fishing season: That EPA is now proposing to withdraw protections for this world-class, billion-dollar resource is not sound economic or environmental policy," said Jason Metrokin, CEO of Bristol Bay Native Corp.

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/politics/article/Connelly-EPA-boosts-big-Alaska-mine-that-would-11284293.php

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EPA resurrects big, salmon-killing Alaska mine (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2017 OP
Bastards. I remember when this surfaced during the primary CentralMass Jul 2017 #1

CentralMass

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1. Bastards. I remember when this surfaced during the primary
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 10:15 PM
Jul 2017

Bernie spoke with some of yhe tribalradets if I recall.

It is more the just tbe loss of jobs
The ecosystem is integral to their cultural identity and way of life..


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