The New York Times’ Hostility to Industry: New at Reason

The paper of record has it in for Pebble Mine in Alaska.

John Stossel writes:

The New York Times‘ hostility to industry gets worse every day.

Last week, The Times ran a big picture of a bay in Alaska with the headline “In Reversal, EPA Eases Path for a Mine Near Alaska’s Bristol Bay.”

While this was just another of their stories about how Donald Trump will poison America, it caught my eye because of the big photo and because I once reported on that mine.

Attempted mine, I should say. No holes have been dug.

I reported on Pebble Mine because the EPA rejected the mine even before its environmental impact statement was submitted.

The Obama EPA squashed Pebble like it squashed the Keystone XL pipeline. It just said no.

This shocked CEO Tom Collier. He’s a Democrat who managed environment policy for Al Gore and Bill Clinton. He was convinced Pebble could be developed safely and assumed EPA regulators would follow their own rules. They didn’t.

“They killed this project before any science was done, and there are memos that show that!” Collier complained.

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