CEO Of Pebble Mine Partnershp Resigns; Recordings Show Murkowski's Cute Lil' Lapdog Status

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The chief executive of the partnership developing the Pebble Mine in Alaska resigned on Wednesday over comments made in meetings recorded by an environmental advocacy group. In a statement, Northern Dynasty Minerals, the Pebble Limited Partnership’s Canada-based parent company, said the executive, Tom Collier, “embellished both his and the Pebble Partnership’s relationships with elected officials and federal representatives in Alaska.”

The comments were “offensive” to “political, business and community leaders in the state and for this, Northern Dynasty unreservedly apologizes to all Alaskans,” the company said. The Pebble project, a major copper and gold mine that would be built in a remote part of Southwest Alaska, has been the subject of a long fight, with economic development forces on one side and, on the other, environmentalists and Native groups who are concerned about the damage to the region’s wild salmon fishery.

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But other comments, including remarks about the state’s two Republican senators and its Republican governor, forced the resignation of Mr. Collier, who was chief of staff to the secretary of the interior during the Clinton administration and had been hired in 2014 by the Pebble developers because of his expertise in the permitting process. In the meetings, Mr. Collier described one of the senators, Lisa Murkowski, as trying to please both sides in the fight over Pebble. "When she’s asked a question she says things that don’t sound supportive” of the project, Mr. Collier said, according to transcripts of the meetings provided by the environmental group. “When it comes time to vote, when it comes time to do anything, she never does anything to hurt Pebble,” he added.

At a meeting in mid-September, Mr. Collier described Ms. Murkowski and the state’s other senator, Dan Sullivan, as “embarrassed” because, he claimed, they had misinterpreted a recent letter the Corps of Engineers had issued about the project. That was a good thing, he said. “They’re just kind of sitting over in a corner and being quiet,” Mr. Collier said. “It couldn’t be a better thing for us because these guys, they can’t cause us a problem.” Mr. Collier also boasted about his access to the state’s governor, Mike Dunleavy. He also spoke of his success in raising money for Republican candidates in the state legislature and how he had led a campaign to get anti-Pebble lawmakers defeated.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/climate/pebble-mine-resignation.html

[Dustlawyer]

1. This is what goes on at all levels in our country.

This is why there is no real response from our government to climate change.

We rate our candidates chance of success by how much in legal bribes they have taken in. This is the root cause of most of our problems. The other root cause is the RW media’s propaganda.

Until we address these to things we will not make any real progress on a host of important issues!