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Pebble Mine’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement Released… Grim Outlook For Bristol Bay

On February 20th, The Army Corps of Engineers released its Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the enormously controversial Pebble Mine. As is standard practice, the DEIS will be subject to a period of public discussions and comment.

Those opposing Pebble Mine have only 90 days to submit comments and attend public hearings. To read more about what is to come, check out FlyLords Magazine Article here.

To submit your comments, visit the Corps; Pebble Project EIS website

"When you see it you realize, it’s not a small place. Forty thousand square miles... [Bristol Bay] generates and sustains the largest remaining salmon fishery on Earth.

In the most important land-use decision in North America in our time, an essentially eternal supply of food is pitted against an essentially eternal supply of poison. In Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency — poison wins."

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Can Mining & Fisheries coexist?
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  • Pebble Mine Info Pebble Mine Info. Information on Technical Background, Block Caving, Waste Disposal, Water Impact, Acid Drainage, Seismic Risk, Fisheries...
  • Bristol Bay Fisheries Bristol Bay Fisheries Information on subsistence, commercial and sport fisheries of Bristol Bay, Alaska.
  • Salmon Ecology 101 Salmon Ecology 101 More than 20,000 species of bony fishes currently dominate earth’s waters; of those, 1% migrate between fresh and salt water. Each summer, millions of Pacific salmon make incredible migrations from the North Pacific and Bering Sea back to freshwaters of their birth to spawn...
  • About Pebble (Mine) Science About Pebble (Mine) Science This site promotes sharing of objective scientific information on proposed copper mining in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Mining in this region is controversial because mining can cause significant adverse impacts to water quality and fisheries and 51% of the world's sockeye salmon originates from Bristol Bay. Economies in the region depend on healthy biodiverse salmon stocks.
  • EPA Report EPA Report The U.S. Evironmental Protection Agency (EPA) released their FINAL REPORT of the potential impacts of large-scale mining on Bristol Bay fisheries, wildlife and Alaska Native cultures. Date released January 2014
  • FRONTLINE (PBS program) 
Videos and Articles on Pebble Mine Frontline (PBS program) Frontline and PBS have several videos and articles about the Pebble Mine and related topics.

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Videos About Bristol Bay

In the Heart of Alaska's Salmon Stronghold

In the Heart of Alaska's Salmon Stronghold

 

Last Cast: Sportsmen’s Fight to Save Bristol Bay

A short and very fishy video by Trout Unlimited

Pebble Mine Info

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2017-2018
Pebble Mine Development Plans



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EPA realeases draft study for public comment Download audio Listen to audio Frontline

Boom, Bust, Boom

Interview with
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Video Audio BBNC releases Poll Results  

About Pebble (Mine) Science

This site promotes sharing of objective scientific information on proposed copper mining in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Mining in this region is controversial because mining can cause significant adverse impacts to water quality and fisheries and 51% of the world's sockeye salmon originates from Bristol Bay. Economies in the region depend on healthy biodiverse salmon stocks.

See article in Nature.com
Population diversity and the portfolio effect in an exploited species


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