Tuesday
Jan172012
Pebble News
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 12:00AM 
The Environmental Protection Agency has released a report detailing the entirety of known toxic chemical releases throughout the Pacific Northwest in 2010. The results? Alaska mining operations account for ninety percent of ALL toxic chemical releases in the Pacific Northwest Region of Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Alaska.
92.3 % of the total comes from metal mining.
LINK (Via: The National Wildlife Federation)
Senator Hollis French of Anchorage has filed a bill that would that would require legislative approval for "large-scale metallic sulfide mining operation that could affect water in or flowing into or over the Bristol Bay Fisheries Reserve."
Like the Pebble Mine.....
LINK (Via: The Republic)
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