Frontline on Pebble mine

[shawn kempkes]

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]

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]

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