Gold And Copper Mining Plan In Alaska Would Destroy The World's Largest Salmon Fisheries

“The Environmental Protection Agency should act promptly to halt the Pebble Mine proposal,” the National Wildlife Federation's Anchorage attorney, Tony Turrini said in a statement. “It’s clear any short-term gains from large-scale hardrock mining would be significantly outweighed by the permanent damage to over 50 miles of streams and thousands of wetland acres even when running as planned – and a worst-case failure scenario could be catastrophic.”

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