The EPA is right to be doing their watershed assessment, they're right to be taking a close look at mining impacts, and they're right to be ...
And you think that this could have an impact on water quality?
Bristol Bay deserves a particularly hard look. It is an important economic driver for both the State of Alaska and the entire Pacific Northw...
their shutdown is making this fantasy a reality, grinding the entire Federal leasing and permitting system to a halt.
If EPA determines that there is no way to put a mine in this region without unacceptable water quality and fishery impacts, then that is not...
I heard some incredible hyperbole, no offense, Mr. Chairman, during the opening remarks.
We are taking testimony on an issue and an area upon which this committee has no jurisdiction...
It is my belief that the Bristol Bay watershed is too important, and too fragile, to allow a massive open-pit mine...
The Bristol Bay salmon fishery contributes $1.5 billion in economic value, and provides half of all the sockeye salmon in the world.
If the EPA were here, they'd be able to directly refute the dual implications of this hearing: that they are somehow opposed to mining jobs,...
You know, it's been said that this is this national war, this Federal agency coming in to a place where it is not wanted.
I really hope this point gets through to all of the colleagues on Capitol Hill of how this impacts ordinary working families, that when ther...
Isn't it possible that in the name of reducing the deficit, this path could actually increase the deficit by decreasing revenues and increas...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
So it really seems like the path we are on right now is equivalent to creating a huge tax on the American economy, one that really hurts fam...
I am disgusted with what the Park Service is doing, especially when I contrast it to what I think this new Secretary of the Interior is tryi...
But none of these things are happening right now thanks to this illogical, irresponsible, completely unnecessary Government shutdown.
I have considerable experience with dealing with salvage.
