‘Pebble could pollute perfect, porous habitat’ ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS COMPASS: Other points of view By JACK STANFORD Published: July 25th, 2010 06:19 PM Executives with Pebble Limited Partnership and some of their high-profile supporters, like former House Speaker Gail Phillips, have recently made misleading statements about the location and potential impacts of the proposed Pebble [...]
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Good read about Pebble…
Posted in No Pebble Mine, tagged Acid sulfide, Alaska, Anglo American Mining, Bristol Bay, Contamination, Copper, Earthen Dams, Gold, Kvichak, Lake Illiamna, Molybdenum, Mulchatna, Northern Dynasty Minerals, Nushagak, Open Pit Mining, Pebble Mine, Pebble Partnership, Pilings, Sockeye Salmon, toxic discharge, Waste Rock on July 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cyanide spills make you think…
Posted in No Pebble Mine, tagged Alaska, Anglo American, BP, Copper, Cyanide extraction, Cyanide Spill, foreign-owned corporations, Fort Knox Gold Mine, Molybdenum, Northern Dyasty Minerals, Oil Spill, Pebble Mine, Pebble Partnership, sodium cyanide, Xanthate Floatation on May 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
‘Polluted water spilled at Fort Knox Gold Mine’ Associated Press – May 7, 2010 12:54 PM ET ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – A 2-acre area at the Fort Knox Gold Mine near Fairbanks is being dug up to remove pollution from a spill of water contaminated with a low concentration of cyanide. The [...]
The Dumbification of Alaskans…
Posted in No Pebble Mine, tagged Alaskans, Anchorage Daily News, Anglo American Mining, Bristol Bay, Copper, Department of Natural Resources, Dillingham, DNR, Gold, Open Pit Mining, Pebble Mine, Pebble Partnership, Permitting Process, Red Salmon, Renewable Resources, Salmon Fishery, Sockeye Salmon, State of Alaska, Toxic Waste, Water use violations, Wild Alaskan Salmon on February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I realize ‘dumbification’ is not an actual word but what’s worse, an individual making up a word or a mining conglomerate’s unmitigated attempts at brainwashing Alaskans in their push to develop Pebble Mine. The truth is slapping us in the face about Pebble, the Pebble Partnership, and Anglo American Mining. Do not minimize the recent violations from Anglo and [...]
Pebble Precursor? – ‘Red flag at Red Dog’ ADN 9/23/2009
Posted in No Pebble Mine, tagged Bristol Bay, Copper, Discharge, Environmental Disaster, Gold, Lead, Open Pit Mining, Pebble Mine, Pebble Partnership, Red Dog Mine, Sockeye Salmon, Toxic Waste, Zinc on September 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Red Dog Mine in the Northwest Arctic, Alaska. The proposed Pebble Mine alone would produce 20x the ore output as Red Dog. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, Red Dog is the single-largest source of toxic pollution in the United States. ©Northern Alaska Environmental Center. (courtesy of Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska) From today’s ADN [...]