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<blockquote data-quote="ZombieHunter" data-source="post: 2090724" data-attributes="member: 5791"><p>^ This freaking guy gets it, Big Oil wins hand down, he said the magic word in my opinion....HARD ASSETS, unlike TECH or software corporations whos assets lie in mysital 1's and 0's inside a computer, as well as things like facebook where the POPULATION and CONSUMER is the PRODUCT, No one quite realizes that the Oil and Exploration Partnerships are out buying up REAL value, they are called MINERAL RIGHTS, WATER RIGHTS, and SURFACE RIGHTS (what you think of as property). </p><p></p><p>If you have the time <strong><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/alaska-gold/" target="_blank">WATCH</a></strong> what this partnership...<a href="http://www.pebblepartnership.com/" target="_blank">The Pebble Partnership</a> Want to do to one of the most important and sustainable Salmon Fish hatcheries in the WORLD in Alaska, they have spent probably $8-12 BILLION just on environmental studies and feasibility to try and prove they can be the FIRST EVER OPEN PIT MINE TO NEVER FAIL.....let that sink in, just the arrogance they have in believing they can be the first to defeat mother nature's wrath on tailing ponds. And not only do they want to dig an OPEN PIT MINE, they want to dig the largest one in the world at over 3 Miles wide and a Mile and a 1/4 deep, the raw battery acid waste (tailings) will be the largest 2 man made structures in the WORLD at over 10 BILLION TONNES of waste, which will INEVITABLY leech into the groundwater as EVERY tailings pond has, and destroy the most sustainable food source we have on earth, where we can harvest HALF of the estimated 120-165 million salmon every year, and sustain that cycle for <strong>ALL ETERNITY</strong>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ZombieHunter, post: 2090724, member: 5791"] ^ This freaking guy gets it, Big Oil wins hand down, he said the magic word in my opinion....HARD ASSETS, unlike TECH or software corporations whos assets lie in mysital 1's and 0's inside a computer, as well as things like facebook where the POPULATION and CONSUMER is the PRODUCT, No one quite realizes that the Oil and Exploration Partnerships are out buying up REAL value, they are called MINERAL RIGHTS, WATER RIGHTS, and SURFACE RIGHTS (what you think of as property). If you have the time [B][URL="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/alaska-gold/"]WATCH[/URL][/B] what this partnership...[URL="http://www.pebblepartnership.com/"]The Pebble Partnership[/URL] Want to do to one of the most important and sustainable Salmon Fish hatcheries in the WORLD in Alaska, they have spent probably $8-12 BILLION just on environmental studies and feasibility to try and prove they can be the FIRST EVER OPEN PIT MINE TO NEVER FAIL.....let that sink in, just the arrogance they have in believing they can be the first to defeat mother nature's wrath on tailing ponds. And not only do they want to dig an OPEN PIT MINE, they want to dig the largest one in the world at over 3 Miles wide and a Mile and a 1/4 deep, the raw battery acid waste (tailings) will be the largest 2 man made structures in the WORLD at over 10 BILLION TONNES of waste, which will INEVITABLY leech into the groundwater as EVERY tailings pond has, and destroy the most sustainable food source we have on earth, where we can harvest HALF of the estimated 120-165 million salmon every year, and sustain that cycle for [B]ALL ETERNITY[/B]. [/QUOTE]
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