By A.J. Roan
Mining News
EPA finalizes decision, blocks Pebble mine
Preemptive veto of vital energy metal mine sets precedent; causing rippling rogue wave ramifications across the country North of 60 Mining News - February 3, 2023
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The concern with the EPA preemptive veto of Pebble lies in the potential that the agency has set a precedent to stop resource development in any state without regard to established data.
In what could be the most consequential "pollice verso" for Alaska, in a time when the federal government is seeking to shift the paradigm from more than a century of petroleum dependency to clean renewable energy, the Environmental Protection Agency issued its final determination under the Clean Water Act to help protect Bristol Bay, invariably crippling the more than two decades of effort tow...
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Reader Comments(1)
Eidolon writes:
Isn't this a takings by federal action?
02/03/2023, 7:48 am