Pebble Partnership Comments About EPA Preemptive Veto
Pebble Partnership CEO John Shively released this statement about the Environmental Protection Agency plan to advance its preemptive veto of the Pebble Project: “This is clearly a giant step backward for the Biden Administration’s climate change goals. “I find it ironic that the President is using the Defense Production Act to get more renewable energy minerals such as copper into production, while others in the Administration seek political ways to stop domestic mining projects such as ours. “As we are still actively working through the established permitting process via our appeal of the Army Corps of Engineers permit denial, we oppose any action that is outside of that process. This preemptive effort is clearly a political maneuver to attempt to block our ability to work through that established process. Further, the Army Corps of Engineers published an Environmental Impact Statement for Pebble in 2020 with input from many
agencies including the EPA that states that the project can be done without harm to the region’s fisheries. “The EIS further notes the tremendous economic opportunity the project represents for the communities around Iliamna Lake where year-round jobs are scarce, and the cost of living is very high. We still need an opportunity to review the specific details that will be in the preemptive veto action. It is also worth noting that there are several additional internal steps that the EPA must follow before anything is final including a public comment period and a decision by the Assistant Administrator. “The Pebble Project remains an important domestic source for the minerals necessary for the Biden Administration to reach its green energy goals. If it blocks Pebble, it will have to seek minerals to meet its goals from foreign sources which simply do not have the same environmental standards as we do.”
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