Does the EPA Have Selective Hearing?.................from Beth

It seems that the EPA is continuing it's massive power grab by picking and choosing whose voices will be heard in the debate over the development of resources within the United States. Case in point, once again the concerns of Native Alaskans living near the development of the Pebble Mine Project are being ignored while the EPA continues to threaten a preemptive veto of the entire project.

Trefon Angasan, board chairman of Alaska Peninsula Corp., a grouping of Alaska Native villages, say: “We should have a consultation established with the EPA, and we don’t. We have been excluded from the development of that watershed assessment.”

Environmental activists and the EPA are using their power to block jobs and business in an economically devastated area. Those in the area who hope for the infusion of opportunity to their area are likening it to 'cultural genocide' but do not have the power or resources to make themselves heard. If the EPA is able to 'Keystone' this project then they will be able to do it anywhere. Both corporate and private properties will be at the mercy of the whims of the radical environmentalists through the enormous power of the EPA.

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