The Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to reject the disastrous Pebble Mine was a promising victory in the fight to save Alaska’s Bristol Bay – but it was a temporary one.
The mining company and its backers have already appealed the Army Corps’ decision and promised to fight tooth and nail to develop this proposed open-pit, gold and copper mega-mine.
If developed, it would produce 10 billion tons of mining waste that would threaten the health of Indigenous People and ecosystems that depend on the bay’s abundant wildlife, and it would worsen our climate crisis by emitting millions of tons of greenhouse gases.
We need a permanent solution. Tell the EPA to veto the dangerous Pebble Mine project once and for all and save Bristol Bay.
Photo: Ryan Peterson
The Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to reject the disastrous Pebble Mine project was a promising victory in the fight to save Alaska’s Bristol Bay – but it was a temporary one. The mining company and its backers have already appealed the Army Corps’ decision and promised to fight tooth and nail to develop this proposed open-pit, gold and copper mega-mine.
We need a permanent solution. Tell the EPA to veto the dangerous Pebble Mine project once and for all and save Bristol Bay.