The Irvings' invasion of Maine

[jpak]

http://www.sunjournal.com/news/maine/2016/08/07/irvings-invasion-maine/1971292

Shelly Mountain’s first and only encounter with Jim Irving did not go swimmingly.

This is one part in a six-part series titled "The House of Irving" by investigative reporter Bruce Livesey of the Vancouver-based National Observer. The series examines the powerful role the Irving family plays in the business, politics and media of New Brunswick, Canada, and beyond. To read the rest of the series, go to nationalobserver.com.

It was April 2012 and Mountain had traveled to the University of Maine’s campus in Fort Kent in northern Maine to attend a forum about a proposed open pit mine to be built at Bald Mountain in that part of the state – about 56 kilometers west of Presque Isle — where gold, silver, zinc and copper are in abundance.

Saint John, New Brunswick-based J.D. Irving Ltd. owns the 500-acre site and wants to develop a mine there. As one of the Canadian conglomerate’s co-CEOs, Jim Irving was attending the forum to make his case.

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Irving - not Somali refugees - is the real threat to Maine.

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[cali]

1. thanks for this interesting piece.