Mining. Photo source: ©© Olivier H
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Mostly roadless and undeveloped, the Bristol Bay watershed doesn’t look like a battlefield, yet it has become the Gettysburg of natural resource conflict in Alaska…
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Pebble Mine
“Imagine a pit two miles wide by 2,000 feet deep, and an underground mine a mile deep. This gargantuan gold and copper operation would produce an estimated 10 billion tons of contaminated waste: 3,000 pounds for every man, woman and child on Earth. Massive earthen dams, some taller than the Three Gorges Dam in China, would be constructed to hold back that waste forever. Now imagine all this in an active earthquake zone at the headwaters of the largest sockeye salmon runs in the world. The threat to Bristol Bay just below is unimaginable. No wonder the Pebble Mine is opposed by nearly 80 percent of Bristol Bay residents.” – Actor and Director Robert Redford,
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NRDC Launches BioGem Campaign to Save Alaska’s Bristol Bay, NRDC
