EPA 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.
The award-winning documentary, Red Gold, follows the world's largest run of sockeye salmon from Alaska's Bristol Bay to their natal spawning grounds. The film weaves in the extraordinary stories of the Alaska Native people and commercial fishermen whose lives and traditions the salmon sustain. The proposed Pebble mine, a massive gold-copper-molybdenum deposit, now threatens to devastate those pristine spawning grounds.
Anglo's CEO promised not to build the Pebble mine against community opposition. Surveys show: communities are overwhelmingly opposed. Click here to tell Cynthia to honor her promise!