Disastrous Mining Project Proposed in Bristol Bay Alaska

Heavily funded foreign interests, who can't be held accountable by our environmental laws intend to industrialize an very large area between Katmai National Park and Lake Clark National park.  They plan to put a 2 mile long, 1 mile wide, 1700 foot deep strip mine right on top of Upper Talarik Creek, a world renowned  trophy rainbow trout fishery.  They will also obliterate the Koktuli river and use it for a mine water source.  

They intend to mine for copper, gold and Molybdenum and will build two toxic waste ponds out of dirt and rock which will contain cyanide, sulphuric acid and reactive copper compounds  They intend to explode 58 kilotons of dynamite a year equivalent to the destructive power of 4 atomic bombs of the size used to obliterate Hiroshima.  These explosions will blast copper dust into the air and copper at the rate of 2 parts per billion interferes with salmons ability to find their natal streams.  this copper pollution is likely to kill the salmon runs of Bristol Bay and the creatures who depend on them;  trout, bears, eagles and humans.

We badly need your your help in fighting this war, please contact Phil Wright at pwright@mac.com who is affiliated with the Renewable Resource Coalition who is doing much of the heavy lifting in the battle against this mine.