EPA Announces Plan to Use Clean Water Act to Preemptively Strike Down Pebble Mine Project Permits
| April 24, 2012 | Posted by Beth Shaw under Energy |
Last month the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suffered what should have been an embarrassing defeat when the Supreme Court ruled that Mike and Chantell Sackett could bring suit against the EPA. That Supreme Court decision was the culmination of a costly 3-year battle between the Sackett’s and the powerful Obama Environmental Protection Agency which used the Clean Water Act in an attempt to prevent the couple from building their home on their property in Idaho.
Apparently the Sackett ruling might not have been such an embarrassment to the mega-bureaucratic government agency because just last week the EPA announced plans to use the Clean Water Act to preemptively prevent the Pebble Mine Project from being built in Alaska. This battle has also been going on for about three years.
It seems that many of the well-heeled in Alaska and Oregon don’t want the Pebble Mine Project built close to an area they consider their personal playground, Bristol Bay, Alaska. And so, under the guise of environmentalism, the powerful few help finance astroturf campaigns and environmental activists in an attempt to ‘Keystone’ the Pebble Mine Project without concern for the Native populations of the area and the much needed jobs and the hundreds of millions of dollars that will be infused into the depressed economy both directly and indirectly.
These NIMBY activists (Not in My Back Yard) have shut down projects across the country. The most famous recent case is the Keystone Pipeline. Now, through the EPA’s announcement last week, it seems the next Obama Administration ‘Keystoning’ will be focused on the Pebble Mine Project.
The question is, what does anyone have to gain by preventing mining, transporting oil or even a couple from building a house in Idaho? Why is there an entire large government agency focusing its attention and spending tax-payer money on preventing these projects that would only help the economy, give people jobs and lower energy prices?
By all appearances it has mostly to do with returning political favors and asserting power, both over those attempting to get the permits and those who are having to pay the price of having to buy energy from places like China, Chile, Venezuela and who knows where else. Those countries are reaping the profits while Americans are paying the price.
This NIMBY attitude is absolutely true… one solution would be for the rest of us to remove ALL resources from those who would prevent the use of our resources.
Obama does not have any power in the White House or fuel for his limos and planes.
All of the lesser NIMBY malcontents can not use ANY of our resources, so they to will be back to the horse and buggy, etc.
Good point Enough Already. We need to fight fire with fire!
[...] “[T]wo things are clearly incontrovertible,” he concluded. “1) the Obama Administration has done everything it possibly can to destroy domestic production of oil, gas and coal. And 2) the Obama Administration now is successfully carrying out its admitted plan to ‘boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe’ and make energy prices ‘necessarily skyrocket.’ Fortunately for the American people, they have yet to fully achieve their goal and we have got to stop them.” SEE ALSO: No Runny Eggs: Crush your enemies, EPA edition where Conan the Barbarian weighs in. Doug Ross: Question: what does the Obama EPA’s stated policy of “crucifying” oil companies do to gas prices? See graph for answer. RELATED: EPA Bullying via Resourceful Earth: EPA Announces Plan to Use Clean Water Act to Preemptively Strike Down Pebble Mine Project Permits: [...]
Thank goodness for Obama otherwise greedy people like you would be running the country into the ground. Thank goodness for the EPA to stop bulldozers like you. You must not have any children because if you did you would want to leave the earth a better place than you found it. Not some big giant waste pit of battery acid. You on the other hand seem to want to destroy it faster. Greed is the downfall to civilization. If you were in charge there wouldn’t be any more United States. Thank goodness times are changing and more people are becoming enlightened. Those of us who are see how unfortunate it must be to be someone like you. Someone who doesn’t see beyond the nose on their face. I am glad there is less and less of you and more and more people who know more and who know better.
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