Pebble Limited Partnership Files Suit In An Effort To Usurp The EPA
The Pebble Limited Partnership (PLP) is hoping to develop the huge Pebble mining prospect near salmon-rich Bristol Bay and has filed suit to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from shutting the project down before a permit application has been filed and reviewed. PLP is arguing that the EPA has vastly exceeded its authority under the Clean Water Act by launching a process that could lead to a preemptive shutdown of the project, according to a media statement.
The Pebble Mine has the potential to be one of the largest open pit copper mines ever developed and could threaten a salmon resource rare in its quality and productivity. The Bristol Bay watershed as one of the worlds last prolific wild salmon resources. The EPA, saying the giant copper, gold and molybdenum prospect could irreversibly harm Bristol Bays wild salmon fishery, has said it is taking steps under the Clean Water Act to protect the fishery. Those steps could ultimately stop the mine.
Pebble Limited Partnership chief executive, Tom Collier said in a press release If EPA ultimately vetoes Pebble before a development plan is proposed or evaluated through the comprehensive federal and state permitting processes, the precedent established will have significant long-term effects on business investment in this state and throughout the country.
Links:
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20140522/pebble-partnership-sues-stop-epa
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/names/r10_2014-2-28_bristol_bay
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The only thing corporations like this care about is how much money they can strip from the land. They care nothing about the damage they will do to the eco-systems.