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Environment & Energy

Blue_In_AK

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5. Yes, you're absolutely right.

Reply to northoftheborder (Reply #4)

Sat Apr 27, 2013, 09:53 PM

Apr 2013

It makes my heart hurt to think of that beautiful wilderness being despoiled by the largest open-pit mine on the face of the planet, which is what they're proposing. Picture an earthen dam taller than Hoover Dam holding back a gigantic lake of toxic waste in a seismically active area. Brilliant...

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EPA says Pebble Mine could wipe out salmon streams, wetlands [View all] Blue_In_AK Apr 2013 OP

Let's start digging..... Dirty Business...... Bennyboy Apr 2013 #1

I haven't yet figured out why mining jobs are better or more important than fishing jobs, Blue_In_AK Apr 2013 #2

jobs are great MFM008 Apr 2013 #3

Positively criminal to mine that area. No matter how careful they are, it will be ruined. It is... northoftheborder Apr 2013 #4

Yes, you're absolutely right. Blue_In_AK Apr 2013 #5