The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's draft assessment of the project was released in May. It concluded that even if a large mine operated smoothly, without engineering failures, miles of salmon rivers and streams could be lost or blocked. And while the risk of catastrophic failure was small, that risk grows a hundred-fold if the mine were developed under standard engineering practices rather than state-of-the-art methods.
http://www.adn.com/2012/08/07/2576523/science-panel-hears-debate-over.html
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