Alaska's Bristol Bay, a region teeming with fat bears and the richest run of sockeye salmon in the world, is one of the wildest lands left in North America. Now, the prospect of an unprecedented mining district in the dead center of the area's verdant tundra and flowing streams just took a mighty step forward.
On Friday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a much anticipated final environmental review of the proposed Pebble Mine — a long process triggered in 2017 after the Trump administration's first EPA chief met with the mine's top brass and then promptly gave the derailed project another shot. The Army Corps of Engineers has now concluded the mine — which would require the construction of a major transportation corridor, multiple power stations, a 188-mile gas pipeline, wastewater treatment plants, a new port, along with a mine itself that could be some 2,000 feet deep — will produce no lasting, measurable harm to the health of Bristol Bay's currently flourishing fishery. Read more...
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