Opinion: Will pristine Bristol Bay be the Trump administration's next sacrifice? (via latimesopinion)
On top of this, the mine plan the Army agency studied might understate the intended size of the project. The massive original footprint drew so much criticism that major investors dropped out after spending more than half a billion dollars on exploration. But the smaller Pebble Mine strikes some financial analysts as infeasible, since the ore generated from it wouldn’t justify the huge cost of building it —top $10 billion.
In the CNN report on the mine in 2017, Collier made a ludicrous claim: Pebble Mine would have no adverse impact on Bristol Bay. The project would transform the region. Even the downsized mine would include an open pit nearly 2,000 feet deep, tailings dams and holding pits for removed from the deposit, a 188-mile-long natural gas pipeline, 77 miles of new roads, a ferry system on Alaska’s biggest lake, a new coastal port and a new power plantIn 2014, the EPA estimated that a mine one-eighth the size of the company’s smallest-known plans would devastate streams where salmon spawn and are reared, and that seepage through the region’s porous soil would spread acidic waste contaminants throughout the watersheds.
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