Showing posts with label Pebble Mine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pebble Mine. Show all posts
Sunday, January 28, 2018

To just about everybody's surprise it appears that even the Trump Administration has serious concerns about the opening of Pebble Mine in Alaska.

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Courtesy of The Hill : The Trump administration is reviving a controversial Obama administration proposal to block a massive gold mine ...
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Sunday, September 24, 2017

Trump's EPA may be working to find a way to green light the Pebble Mine. Have I told you how much I dislike the people in this administration?

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Courtesy of CNN :   Within hours of meeting with a mining company CEO, the new head of the US Environmental Protection Agency directed h...
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Sunday, May 14, 2017

The once dead Pebble Mine project has now been resurrected, thanks to Donald Trump.

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Courtesy of Think Progress :   Plans to mine alongside Alaska’s pristine Bristol Bay, where half the world’s salmon are fished, had appe...
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Thursday, February 16, 2017

Did the much reviled Pebble Mine project just die with a whimper and not a bang?

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Courtesy of Think Progress :   A 15-year fight to mine for gold along Alaska’s pristine Bristol Bay might have just ended — with a whimp...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Among those who are hopeful about a Trump presidency, the folks behind the Pebble Mine.

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Courtesy of ADN :   The companies behind a decade-long effort to build a massive gold and copper mine in Alaska's Bristol Bay region...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

President Obama just used a Presidential Memorandum to protect Alaska's Bristol Bay.

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Courtesy of Newsweek :   In a YouTube video released Tuesday evening, President Barack Obama announced a ban on future oil and gas dr...
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Saturday, May 03, 2014

The prospects are high in Alaska for a Mark Begich victory in 2014. Get it, high.

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Courtesy of the Daily Beast :   If Alaska Democrat Mark Begich wins re-election to the U.S. Senate, he may have Republican state legisl...
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Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Rats continue jumping from the sinking ship that is the Pebble Mine.

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Courtesy of ADN :   Global mining giant Rio Tinto is pulling out of the Pebble mine project in Alaska, the latest blow to the controver...
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Saturday, March 01, 2014

EPA moves to officially block the Pebble Mine.

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Courtesy of HuffPo :   The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that it is beginning a process that could block a massive p...
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Saturday, January 18, 2014

New study may prove to be the death knell for the Pebble Mine Project in Alaska. If fish could applaud they would be doing so.

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Bristol Bay Courtesy of the Juneau Empire :   A government report indicates a large-scale copper and gold mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay...
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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Alaska's richest man blasts Sarah Palin for double crosssing her fellow Alaskans. Update!

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Courtesy of the National Enquirer : Alaska’s richest man is blasting Sarah Palin for failing to avert a po­tentially devastating environ...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

ADN writes article about Shannyn Moore's shocking expose on the Pebble Mine initiative. Well good at least they are linking to SOME progressive blogs!

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Alaska blogger and Pebble opponent Shannyn Moore two days ago wrote a provocative blog postabout Tim Griffin, an Outside Republican strategi...
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Friday, December 05, 2008

The very controversial Pebble mine may prove to be yet another empty promise of vast riches for Alaskans.

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The copper and gold prospect in salmon-rich Southwest Alaska holds about 72 billion pounds of copper and 94 million ounces of gold, accordin...