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Lamar Smith (R-Texas) – Akin Gump
The now-retired Texas Republican served in the House since 1987. Smith, who was chairman of the House Science Committee, was an ardent opponent of environmental regulations and a denier of climate science and a major recipient of oil and gas industry money Smith pushed the Trump administration to allow a controversial copper and gold mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, a remote area in southwestern Alaska. Hired by Akin Gump in January, Smith has now registered to lobby in favor of the Pebble Limited Partnership, which has proposed the mine and is owned by Vancouver-based Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. Pebble Mine is opposed by environmental groups, commercial fishermen and was opposed by one of the richest men in Alaska, a Trump supporter who died last year. In addition to the proposed mine, Smith also has registered to lobby for drug giant Pfizer Inc, agricultural tracking technology firm HerdX and oil and gas pipeline construction firm Otis Eastern Service.
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Former Rep.Lamar Smith(R-Texas), meanwhile, who also joined Akin Gump after leaving Congress in January, reported lobbying for four clients. They include HerdX, a ranching logistics company; Otis Eastern Service, an oil-and-gas pipeline company; Pebble Limited Partnership, which is trying to develop an open-pit mine in Alaska; and Pfizer, the giant pharmaceutical company.
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BRISTOL BAY
EPA deleted scientists' concerns about Pebble analysis
Ariel Wittenberg and Dylan Brown, E&E News reporters
Published: Friday, August 16, 2019
EPA scientists wanted their agency to ask for a new environmental review of the proposed Pebble mine project but were overridden by political staffers, according to several sources and a key document obtained by E&E News.
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Dark money dealer
In 1998, Dubke co-founded one of the earliest bona fide dark money groups, Americans for Job Security (AJS). Long before Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions helped trigger the proliferation of such outfits, AJS went around the country advocating for and against candidates at the state and federal level and promoting the pet issues of its wealthy corporate and individual donors — who, of course, could remain unidentified under IRS rules.
Over the years, AJS has pushed the boundaries of what many thought these groups could do in the political realm. In a landmark study of dark money in elections from 2000 to 2016, produced by the Center for Responsive Politics and the Wesleyan Media Project, AJS was one of the only politically active nonprofits active in the earliest cycles, running thousands of ads in presidential and Senate races as far back as 2000.
But AJS was never just a dark money group that aimed to elect or defeat certain politicians. The group has advocated for “basically anything we label a ‘pro-paycheck’ message,” as Dubke told the Washington Monthly in 2004. He may have been talking about his own paycheck: From the outside, these campaigns looked less like the general promotion of business friendly policies and more like the sorties of a group willing to jump into any fight its wealthy anonymous donors were bankrolling.
In 2008, for example, AJS paid the state of Alaska a $20,000 fine for spending $1.6 million on a referendum that sought to restrict development of the Pebble Mine,a gold and copper mine at the headwaters of Bristol Bay. Alaska regulators were surprised to see a secretive group out of Washington swoop in and oppose such a specific project, so they investigated and found that AJS had received $2 million from a financier named Robert Gillam, who owned a private fishing lodge in the area. Gillam had been in touch with Dubke before becoming an AJS “member.”
AJS funneled nearly all of Gillam’s money to a group called Alaskans for Clean Water, run by an AJS board member. That same year, Dubke handed over AJS’s reins to a young New Hampshire GOP operative named Stephen DeMaura, who said he made the decision to fund ACW “based upon his own research and judgement” — though the decision seemed contrary to the professed pro-business bent of a conservative group like AJS
Alaska officials weren’t convinced. AJS settled with them, paying $20,000 for acting as an improper conduit for anonymous money and promising not to do that in Alaska ever again.
This activity, year after year, was a part of AJS’ overall operations, which also included sizeable and mounting political spending in elections. While AJS had been active for more than a decade before the Supreme Court handed down its Citizens United decision in 2010, the decision — along with the earlier Wisconsin Right to Life v FEC ruling in 2007 — allowed AJS to more openly target candidates. From 2008 through 2012, AJS reported spending more than $34 million in congressional and presidential elections. The money all came from secret donors and other similarly opaque nonprofit organizations that got their money from secret donors; money twice laundered was less likely to give up the name of its true source.
While Dubke relinquished control of AJS to DeMaura in 2008, he remained a constant presence in the years that followed through his consulting contracts with the group he founded.
And the group continued to trigger regulators’ interest.
In 2012, Americans for Job Security was part of an elaborate “campaign money laundering” scheme in California, that led to historic fines in the state against two groups that served as conduits of AJS money into ballot initiatives in the state.
And last year, the FEC settled with AJS and two other dark money groups, 60 Plus and American Future Fund, for a total of $233,000 for not disclosing the source of money it spent on ads aired in congressional races in 2010. The funds for more than $2 million in ads run by AJS came from the Center to Protect Patient Rights, a 501(c)(4) that was then the hub for the distribution of Koch-controlled funds to like-minded groups, and the head of the hub group helped produce the ads and directed where they ran, according to the FEC conciliation agreement AJS signed.
Consulting cash
AJS — which has never had more than a single employee — has long operated out of an Alexandriaoffice space buzzing with interconnected Republican political consulting and media firms, at least two of which involve Dubke. They’ve received millions of dollars in fees from AJS.
Black Rock Group, a political consulting firm that Dubke runs with Carl Forti, has been paid a minimum of $1.7 million in the last three election cycles (CRP’s 2016 data only goes through early fall) by a variety of Republican candidates and groups. Forti was political director of American Crossroads, the group formed by GOP strategist Karl Rove and others that was the Goliath of super PACs for several years. And indeed, American Crossroads was among Black Rock’s biggest clients. In 2012, the group also did work for the pro-Mitt Romney super PAC Restore Our Future — which was run by Forti.
Crossroads Media LLC, also founded by Dubke, was paid hundreds of millions of dollars in the 2012 presidential campaign cycle, FEC and IRS records show — including $9 million by American Crossroads; more than $118 million by that group’s dark money arm, Crossroads GPS; and $15 million by AJS, the nonprofit Dubke started. (Note: Much of the money paid to media consulting firms is used to buy expensive TV time for their clients’ ads; it’s impossible to tell how much the firms keep.)
In the 2014 midterm cycle, the firm appeared to scale way back, taking in just $11.8 million from federal-level political clients (it may have earned more working in state races). But, according to tax documents filed in 2015, $4.7 million of that came from Carolina Rising, the dark money outfit that spent nearly all the money it raised working to get Republican Thom Tillis elected to the U.S. Senate from North Carolina. Long after votes were cast, tax filings revealed that Carolina Rising received nearly 99 percent of its funds from shadowy fellow traveler Crossroads GPS. Dark money being what it is, of course, the original donors are mostly unknown.
Critics waste no time
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mystery solved!
wealthy activist who has funded efforts to block a proposed mine in Alaska's Bristol Bay donated $250,000 to President Donald Trump's re-election effort six weeks after the administration abruptly decided to prevent the mine from moving forward.
The move to block the Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay from moving forward seems to diverge from a trend in policy under the leadership of Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt -- seen as one of President Donald Trump's most productive cabinet members in moving to undo environmental regulations put in place under the Obama administration. During the Trump presidency, the EPA in 2017 had previously allowed the mine to move forward.
The EPA said the change in course was because the environmental risk was too great and announced on January 26 that the mine would not immediately move forward.
Robert Gillam made his second and largest donation to Trump Victory Fund just weeks later, donating $250,000 on March 9, according to FEC filings.
Gillam has previously spent as much as $2.5 million to block the Pebble Mine from moving forward in Alaska's fertile fishing ground called the Bristol Bay. He has been advocating against the mine since 2005, according to an Alaska state report. He declined to comment for this story.
Gillam has previously donated to the Republican National Committee, Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Republican campaigns in Alaska.
He went to Wharton with Trump and met with him at Mar-a-Lago the weekend before he made a $250,000 donation to the president's Victory Fund, according to a report in E&E News.Gillam owns a fishing lodge in the area, according to public meeting records, and has said that the mine would hurt the local salmon population.
Last November he wrote in an editorial that the mine project was "doomed."
"For more than a decade, I have taken on the battle against the Pebble Mine, because, more than any other development proposal in our state's history, it threatens to forfeit to foreign mining companies an invaluable part of our heritage, something Alaskans cannot afford to lose -— and will never stop defending —- Bristol Bay; the last great salmon fishery on the planet," Gillam wrote in the opinion piece in a local newspaper.
The Pebble Mine project was blocked by the Obama administration in 2014, citing harm to the environment that the EPA said would be caused by mining in the area. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt reversed that decision in May 2017 and allowed the permitting process to move forward as well as accept public comments on the process.
In late January, the EPA abruptly slowed the project again, saying the agency has "serious concerns" about the risk mining could pose to fishing operations and local residents around Bristol Bay. The agency didn't go so far as to block the mine completely but said the permit application "must clear a high bar" and provide information on how the mine will impact the surrounding area.
The company behind the Pebble Mine project announced in May that a major partner ended their agreement to support the mine, adding more uncertainty to the future of the project.
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The Pebble Mine Is Too Toxic Even for the Trump Administration
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odd rare win?
https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-suspends-pebble-mine-2529694490.html
...The unexpected move from President Trump's pro-business administration was a blow to Pebble Limited Partnership, a subsidiary of Canadian mining company Northern Dynasty Minerals. The mine developer is proposing to extract one of the world's largest copper and gold deposits from the pristine watershed. Shares fell as much as 26 percent on Monday following the EPA's surprise decision.
The Obama EPA in 2014 proposed to block the project under the Clean Water Act but the plan was never finalized after a federal court put a hold on the process.
Last year, the EPA started a process to reverse the decision, and Pebble submitted its first permit application to build the mine last month. But the EPA received more than one million comments from interested stakeholders, most that were fiercely opposed to withdrawing the earlier proposed protections. More than 65 percent of Alaskans, 80 percent of Bristol Bay residents and Native communities, and 85 percent of commercial fishermen oppose the mine.
Joel Reynolds, the western director and senior attorney the Natural Resources Defense Council noted, "The Bristol Bay fishery is the economic and cultural heart and soul of the region, producing last summer alone some 60 million wild salmon. Every year it generates an estimated $1.5 billion in revenue, supporting some 14,000 jobs in a region that depends on that economic engine for its very survival. According to EPA's own comprehensive assessment of risk, the Pebble Mine's impact on the region could be 'catastrophic.'"
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt said Friday, "We have restored process, reviewed comments, and heard from a variety of stakeholders on whether to withdraw the proposed restrictions in the Bristol Bay watershed."
"Based on that review, it is my judgment at this time that any mining projects in the region likely pose a risk to the abundant natural resources that exist there. Until we know the full extent of that risk, those natural resources and world-class fisheries deserve the utmost protection."
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http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/alaskas-pebble-mine-and-the-legend-of-trumps-gold
Last summer, I walked alone across a magnificent slice of southwest Alaska, over hilly tundra pocked with lakes and ponds and sliced through by meandering creeks. There were caribou and eagles, wolves and bears, and just then millions of sockeye salmon were surging up from Bristol Bay to spawn in one of the world’s last great wild nurseries. But there were also metal pipes jutting out of the ground every few hundred yards, scattered like tombstonesacross the landscape. They marked the locations of some of the thirteen hundred exploratory holes that Northern Dynasty Minerals, a Canadian mining company, began boring in 2004. The holes revealed huge deposits of copper, gold, and molybdenum worth, in Northern Dynasty’s accounting, potentially hundreds of billions of dollars. In the past decade, the company has advanced plans to excavate an immense open-pit mine, the Pebble Mine, right near the headwaters of some of Bristol Bay’s major salmon rivers. Predictably, the project has encountered stiff opposition from local fishermen, Alaskan Native groups, and their environmental and political allies around the country. Early last year, the combination of bad P.R., spooked investors, declining copper prices, logistical and infrastructural challenges, unresolved court battles, and a proposed intervention by the Environmental Protection Agency seemed to have rendered Pebble an extreme long shot. Northern Dynasty’s stock, worth twenty-one dollars a share five years earlier, bottomed out at twenty-one cents.
But then the Presidential election happened, and the project began to look as though it might make a comeback. On November 9th, the day after Donald Trump won, Northern Dynasty’s share price jumped twenty-five per cent; by early February of this year, it had more than quadrupled in value. Soon the company was being touted as a virtual sure thing in investor newsletters and chat rooms—“Trump’s gold” became a popular refrain. The financial press echoed the storyline. The Alaska Journal of Commerce titled one article “Pebble Revived,” while the Globe and Mail headlined a Bloomberg story with “Trump Makes Canadian Mine Explorer with Zero Revenue Great Again.” In January, Northern Dynasty’s C.E.O., Ron Thiessen, leveraged the moment, giving investor presentations in New York, Montreal, and Vancouver, and telling interviewers along the way that the Trump Administration had “a desire to permit Pebble” and that the E.P.A. situation would be resolved within a hundred days. That month, the company raised $37.4 million with a special sale of secondary shares. Thiessen and his colleagues even prepared a timetable of “project milestones” that fit neatly within the four years of Trump’s first term. On the federal level, Northern Dynasty’s assumptions may prove valid. Republicans in Congress have long seen Pebble as a casualty of the E.P.A.’s regulatory overreach. Just last week, Representative Lamar Smith, the Republican chair of the House Science Committee, sent a letter to Scott Pruitt, the E.P.A.’s pro-industry new administrator, urging him to rescind the agency’s earlier attempts to block the mine.
On Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order revoking what he referred to as “the so-called Waters of the United States Rule”—a regulation instituted by President Barack Obama to protect rivers, streams, and wetlands from pollution—dismissing it as “a massive power grab” that targeted “our wonderful small farmers and small businesses.” According to a report in the Washington *Post*, the White House also plans to cut the E.P.A.’s budget by a quarter and lay off a fifth of its staff—all conceivably good news for Northern Dynasty.
And yet, in practical terms, Pebble’s path forward is no clearer now than it was on November 7th. The Trump Administration has made no public statements concerning the mine, nor has it had any direct contact with Northern Dynasty. “Over all, we have a certain degree of confidence,” the company’s head spokesman, Sean Magee, told me. “Until we have confirmation, that’s aspiration on our part, but we certainly conveyed it to the market.” Recently, however, some investors have begun to question both Northern Dynasty’s stock price and Pebble’s economic viability. On Valentine’s Day, Kerrisdale Capital Management, a New York-based hedge fund with a specialty in shorting companies it views as overvalued, released a bearish report. “We believe Northern Dynasty is worthless,” it read. “Though the legal and regulatory problems that will continue to plague the Pebble project even under a Trump presidency are enormous, the project’s Achilles’ heel is more fundamental: economics.”
There is, first of all, the problem of cash flow. In 2013, Northern Dynasty’s last major commercial partner, Anglo-American, backed out of the project, after investing more than half a billion dollars. Since then, Northern Dynasty has been on its own. The company has stayed ahead of insolvency by periodically selling shares and special warrants to investors, using the proceeds to pay lawyers and lobbyists to hobble the E.P.A. and keep the project alive. To make Pebble an actual mine now, the company will need, by its own estimate, some hundred and fifty million dollars for the permitting process alone. It will also require the institutional knowledge of a larger mining company, which means attracting another partner. And assuming it can do that, a number of other obstacles remain. The Kerrisdale report suggests, for instance, that the cost of meeting various logistical challenges—supplying the project’s enormous power needs; building a deep-water port, a pipeline, a haul road, and dams to hold back waste—may in fact be too high for Pebble’s relatively low-grade ore ever to be mined profitably. The report’s conclusion is damning: “Northern Dynasty has skillfully exploited the Trump narrative to reignite enthusiasm for a company that the market had left for dead. But ‘telling a good story’ is all Northern Dynasty has ever been good at.”
Northern Dynastyresponded to the Kerrisdale report aggressively, accusing the firm of engaging in a “short and distort campaign”—that is, of giving Pebble an unfair drubbing merely to make more money from its failure. “The Company and its board have evaluated each of the Short Seller’s claims and believe they are unfounded, contain numerous errors and unsupported speculation, and demonstrate a lack of understanding of the Company’s business,” Northern Dynasty wrote in a statement. At least some investors, though, found Kerrisdale’s thesis more persuasive than Northern Dynasty’s rebuttal. Its stock fell by nearly a third on the day the report was issued. There have been some fluctuations since then, but the over-all trend has been downward, and for the past couple of weeks the stock has been trading at about half of its pre-Kerrisdale level. Meanwhile, law firms have piled on, announcing class-action suits—fourteen and counting—based on the report’s allegations that the company knowingly misled shareholders. (Northern Dynasty calls the suits baseless.)
Kerrisdale has stood by its assessment. “The more we dug into it, the more excited we got, because it seemed like this whole thing was just smoke and mirrors,” Sahm Adrangi, the fund’s founder, told me. And the response from Alaska, where Adrangi has never been, was overwhelmingly positive. “I don’t think we’ve ever received this much praise on a report,” he said. “We got a lot of e-mails telling us how beautiful Bristol Bay is and that we should come visit.” A couple of days after the report came out, Kerrisdale tweeted a note that it had received from a retired Bristol Bay fisherman. “You made my day, week, month, and year,” it reads. “You brought the light of truth to what has been a real clown show. And a dangerous one.”
As the note suggests, even if the E.P.A. stands down and a major investor comes on board, the mine still faces a daunting level of local activism and opposition. “Pebble does not have an E.P.A. problem,” Tim Bristol, the executive director of the Alaskan conservation group SalmonState, told me. “They have an Alaska problem. It’s the development project that Alaskans love to hate.” And it’s true: in a generally extraction-friendly state, Pebble is unpopular, and only getting more so. Governor Bill Walker, an independent, has spoken out against the mine, and the G.O.P.-dominated state legislature has grown increasingly skeptical—a particularly important development, since a 2014 ballot measure, supported by two-thirds of voters, gave it veto power over any mine proposal in Bristol Bay. Earlier this week, the United Tribes of Bristol Bay, a consortium that has fought against Pebble for years, was invited to testify before the Alaska House Resources Committee about pollution allegedly caused by all those drill holes. “Our local hunters have seen our game pushed further and further away,” Alannah Hurley, the group’s executive director, told the committee. “These concerns come from our people and our communities, who are seeing real impacts to our way of life.”
When I spoke with Hurley recently, she said that Pebble’s opponents remain organized and resolute, and that, whatever happens in Vancouver or Manhattan or D.C., they know that the glittering prize beneath the tundra will always attract people who want to dig it up. So, if there is a lesson here for other environmental fights in the age of Trump, perhaps it is this: constant vigilance. “There’s no giving up,” Hurley said. “That’s not even an option. We’re going to be here to welcome the fish back this summer—forty million of them.”
http://www.ecowatch.com/epa-lawsuit-pebble-mine-2404702705.html
Trump's EPA Just Revived Controversial Pebble Mine
By Taryn Kiekow Heimer
If the Trump administration's strategy is to put a foreign mining company first—and America's greatest wild salmon fishery dead last—then sadly it's succeeding.
Friday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) settled a lawsuit with Northern Dynasty Minerals—the Canadian junior mining company behind the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska. The settlement has not yet been filed with the court, but according to EPA and Northern Dynasty press releases it will shelve an Obama-era Proposed Determination to protect Bristol Bay. EPA agrees it will start the process of withdrawing its Proposed Determination and Northern Dynasty Minerals agrees to dismiss the lawsuit.
EPA Administer Scott Pruitt claims the settlement is about providing Pebble a "fair process," but in reality it's putting Pebble Mine first and Bristol Bay second. If he is really serious about "listening to all voices as this process unfolds," then it's time to listen to what the people of Alaska and Bristol Bay want. Spoiler alert: They do not want the Pebble Mine. More than 65 percent of Alaskans, 80 percent of Bristol Bay residents and Native communities, and 85 percent of commercial fishermen oppose the mine.
Miller made it his job to promote Mr. Pruitt nationally, both as a spokesman for the Rule of Law campaign and as the president of theRepublican Attorneys General Association.
“I regard the general as the A.G. best suited to take this lead on this question of federalism,” Mr. Miller wrote to Mr. Pruitt’s chief of staffin April 2012. “The touchstone of this initiative would be to organize the states to resist federal ‘overreach’ whenever it occurs.”
To Mr. Miller, having Mr. Pruitt as an advocate fit a broader strategy. He wanted state attorneys general to band together the way they did when theychallenged the health care law in 2010. In that effort, theyhired a major national corporate law firm, Baker Hostetler, to argue the case, with much of the bill being paid through donations from executives at corporations that oppose the law.
In his initial appeal to Mr. Pruitt, Mr. Miller insisted that his approach was not “client driven.” But he soon began to name individual clients — TransCanada and Pebble Mine in Alaska — that he wanted to include in the effort. The E.P.A. has held up the Pebble Mine project, which could potentially yield 80 billion pounds of copper, afterconcluding it would “threaten one of the world’s most productive salmon fisheries.”
“This strike force ought to take the form of a national state litigation team to challenge the E.P.A.’s overreach,” Mr. Miller said in an email to Mr. Pruitt’s office. “Like the Dalmatian at the proverbial firehouse, it could move out smartly when the alarm sounded.”
A Call to Arms
Mr. Miller’s pitch to Mr. Pruitt became a reality early last year at the historic Skirvin Hilton Hotel in Oklahoma City, where he brought together an extraordinary assembly of energy industry power brokers and attorneys general from nine states for what he called the Summit on Federalism and the Future of Fossil Fuels.
The meeting took place in the shadow of office towers that dominate Oklahoma City’s skyline and are home to Continental Resources, a leader in the nation’s fastest-growing oil field, the Bakken formation of North Dakota, as well as Devon Energy, which drilled 1,275 new wells last year.
More liberal attorneys general, such as Douglas F. Gansler, Democrat of Maryland, did not participate.
“Indeed, General Gansler would in all likelihood try to hijack your summit,” Mr. Miller wrote to Mr. Pruitt in an email. “At best you would be left to preside over a debate, rather than a call to arms.”
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