"I am usually polite here and ignore the rhetoric--like BCSP would be all operaitng now if it weren't for Obama, ..."

Are you suggesting that the likes of Mitsubishi and Anglo American fled the Pebble Limited Partnership for reasons other than being welcomed and encouraged in Alaska by the O'bama EPA?

By the way, I'm not sure what you mean by "operating now". With supportive progress in the intrum, I could agree with "under construction", but "producing now", I think, would be a stretch.