View Full Version : Frontline on Pebble mine
shawn kempkes
07-26-2012, 05:56 AM
The PBS show frontline just ran a show on the Alaska Pebble Mine project. You can watch it online if you missed it. It was very good.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/alaska-gold/
Darian
07-26-2012, 09:26 AM
I've, occasionally, been following information about this project but had no idea how vast it is. It's footprint would extend past the mine area, a pipeline and highways to include a new port and power generating station. Plus, high seas shipping. Lots of potential impacts. Since Alaska's history reflects that the state has never denied a mining permit and the consortium is so well financed, it looks like the deck's stacked....
I can understand the viewpoints of both sides presented but, given the mining industries history of major disasters and abandonment of closed, polluting mines, I can't get behind this one. :-|
caltagm
07-27-2012, 09:14 AM
The period for comments to the EPA on the Pebble Mine proposal ended last week. There were about 200,000 comments with 98% of them opposed to the mine.
There is progress being made. We just have to continue the effort.
Mike
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