The EPA did not spend over a million on a camp were we got sued and sold and lost all our claims in Ak. If we had used that money to drill HM (which was the plan before the change to Ak) we could be close to mining HM by now. You are correct that the EPA ruined mining in Ak, but JB knew that and still spent that money there.
Now I amit I don't have all the real details of what happen there, but I feel we would be much futher ahead if we would have used that money in HM.