Is there any place on this Earth that deserves protection from industrial mining? Mining is arguably the most destructive industry on Earth. Cyanide heap leach mining uses tons sodium cyanide to extract gold from mountains of ore. A ton of ore yields only a gram or so of gold, and a typical mine creates millions of tons of toxc waste that must be contained forever. Large cyanide leach mines always leak, often catastrophically, killing entire rivers. All of this is bad news, but the really bad news is that in the heart one of the most productive salmon fisheries in the world, Bristol Bay, Alaska, a consortium intends to open the largest open pit cyanide leach mine in the world. If there is any place on this Earth that should definitely NOT be the site for a massive leach mine, this is it. Without Pebble Mine, Bristol Bay can go on being the magnificent gem it has been for many millenium. With Pebble Mine, the statistics tell us that most of Bristol Bay and the surrounding watershed will be dead within ten years of the mine's opening. The AURUL Baia-Mare disaster was tiny compared to what will happen at Bristol Bay, yet Hungarian officials declared AURUL to be the worst disaster since the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown. Everyone knows these facts to be true, but greed destroys. These CEOs want their riches, at any cost. And at any cost, Pebble Mine must never open. Please help us stop Pebble Mine. Click on the links here, see the video, and sign the petition. You'll be doing the Earth a world of good.
http://www.mining.com/2011/11/28/81-opposed-to-pebble-mine-new-poll-says/?utm_source=digest-en-au-111129&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=digest
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