FILE-In this Thursday, April 3, 1997 file photo, the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Ga., is is seen. A mining company said Tuesday it plans to dig for minerals without a federal permit at the edge of the vast wildlife refuge in the Okefenokee Swamp, a big step for a once-embattled project that's now benefitting from the Trump administration's rollback of environmental rules.
Twin Pines President Steve Ingle said in a statement Tuesday that his company is moving ahead with plans to mine on nearly 600 acres near the Georgia-Florida line. “These decisions are being made across the country, and we’re only starting to see the consequences,” said Greg Gisler, a senior attorney for the Southern Environmental Law Center. “I think what we’ll see over the next several months, until this rule is thrown out or changes, is that we’re going to lose the streams and wetlands that we depend on.”signed the policy change narrowing
As the Army Corps weighed concerns from conservationists and government wildlife agencies, Twin Pines withdrew its application in February. A month later it submitted a new plan that significantly shrunk the project. “This property now has a large, contiguous, mineable area in the center of it because those wetlands have now been removed from our jurisdiction,” said Jason O’Kane, regulatory chief for the Army Corps’ Savannah District, which handled the Twin Pines permit application.
Ingle has long insisted his proposed mine would have a negligible impact on the swamp. All of the directly affected wetlands lie outside the Okefenokee’s boundaries.
The Trump admin doesn't see a great country, they see unexploited resources to be turned into more, more, more money for the already monied. Vote blue and end this boundless greed as policy.
Is there nothing republicans won’t ruin, kill, traumatize? VoteBlueToSaveAmerica
Bert Reynolds needs to get active
The US started a war under false pretense of WMD to install puppet govt to get oil. And Trump will have none of that. Environmentalists have a hidden agenda.
We have options.we can be energy independent or we can buy our energy off of foreign govts at whatever price they set or we can send our men and women overseas to die to acquire the energy needed. Tough choice huh.
Then after they destroy it due to an 'accident' the taxpayers will have to pay to clean it up and the company may get a small fine.
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