BBNC, which represents more than 8,600 Alaska Native shareholders has asked the EPA to step in to use its authority under 404(c) of the Clean Water Act to tailor a prohibition on the discharge of mine waste from the Pebble Mine. Read about it in the Bristol Bay Times.
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Canadian’s open pit mine plan panned in the U.S.
August 10th, 2010The Montreal Gazette covers opposition to Pebble Mine in recent article, “Canadian’s open pit mine plan panned in the U.S.” Here’s a quote from Bristol Bay fishermen Lindsey Bloom, “We live and make our living from where the Pebble mine would be
built,” says Lindsey Bloom, an official with the Alaska Independent Fisherman Marketing Association. “We want our country’s top environmental experts to look into whether the Kvichak and Nushagak drainages are the right place for large-scale metallic sulphide mining that could permanently harm the world’s largest wild
sockeye salmon fishery.”
LA Times Story on EPA Visit to Bristol Bay
August 6th, 2010Last week, Environmental Protection Agency Chief Lisa Jackson met with dozens of mine opponents at Dillingham High School, where tribal leaders and commercial fishermen began a push to have the EPA wield its veto authority.
“The location could not possibly be worse on the face of the earth,” said former state Senate President Rick Halford, a Republican from the Bristol Bay region. “This is a place of incredible value. It’s going to be probably the biggest environmental resource fight of our lifetime.”
Read the full story here
Don’t miss the Satelite Festival in Squaw Valley in September!
August 6th, 2010Hey everyone; If you’re in the Lake Tahoe area in September, don’t miss the Satelite Festival - featuring a whole host of fabulous events designed to highlight Bristol Bay, Alaska - starting with Savor Bristol Bay Restaurant Week from Sept. 5th - 12th. Many thanks to Blair Lauren Brown for her efforts!
At meeting with EPA Chief, Lisa Jackson, residents united in opposition to Pebble
July 29th, 2010One by one, representatives of a dozen Southwest Alaska communities stood to tell the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of the threat they feel the massive Pebble mine prospect would pose to their way of life. In an excerpt from an article in the Codova Times,
“If you take away who we are, our natural resources, that would be terminating us as a people,” Mary Ann Johnson from the tribal council of Portage Creek told EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Wednesday, during a listening session at Dillingham High School.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson will be in Bristol Bay this week to hear about Pebble.
July 27th, 2010EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is traveling to Bristol Bay this week for a listening session on the Pebble Mine.
“I’m very glad they are coming out here,” said Robin Samuelsen, a Bristol Bay fisherman and president and chief executive officer of the Bristol Bay Economic Development Corp. “It’s about time that they conduct hearings in the Bristol Bay region. “The last poll I saw done showed that 82 percent were opposed to the mine,” he said, in recent news article.
Top scientist Rebuts Pebble On Misleading Statements
July 26th, 2010Top scientist, Jack Stanford, rebuts misleading statements made by the Pebble Limited Partnership (Anglo American and Northern Dynasty) about the impacts of the proposed Pebble Mine on the Bristol Bay salmon fishery. Here’s a quick excerpt of the lead in to the article, but read the whole thing in the Anchorage Daily News.
“They stated in public forums that Pebble is not located in the headwaters of Bristol Bay and that it would only affect about two streams out of some 42 similarly-sized streams in the project area, thus creating the false impression that this enormous copper and gold mine would cause minimal harm to the habitat of Bristol Bay’s great salmon fishery. Nothing could be farther from the truth.”
Legislative group to meet to decide on independent science review
July 18th, 2010Members of the AK State Legislative Council will meet on July 19th to decide how to proceed with the independent science review of the Pebble Mine. Read more in the Bristol Bay Times
Win in Court for Opponents of Pebble Mine
July 14th, 2010It’s a win in court for Nunamta Auluekstai and other opponents to the proposed Pebble Mine. According to the AP article, a Superior Court judge has cleared the way for a legal fight over state-issued permits for the Pebble Mine.
The fight is being waged by eight Bristol Bay village corporations,
former firs…t lady Bella Hammond, former state constitutional delegate
Victor Fisher and two Bristol Bay residents. The lawsuit says that the state issued the land and water use permits without looking at the potential harm to resources.
Judge Eric A. Aarseth said in his decision Monday that there was
enough evidence to allow the constitutional issues concerning the
permits to be heard at a Dec. 6 trial.
“The state has issued permits behind closed doors without even
looking at the harms to public resources,” said plaintiffs’ lawyer Nancy
Wainwright.
former firs…t lady Bella Hammond, former state constitutional delegate
Victor Fisher and two Bristol Bay residents. The lawsuit says that the state issued the land and water use permits without looking at the potential harm to resources.
enough evidence to allow the constitutional issues concerning the
permits to be heard at a Dec. 6 trial.
looking at the harms to public resources,” said plaintiffs’ lawyer Nancy
Wainwright.
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