A consortium of international companies: Britain’s Anglo American and Rio Tinto, Canada’s Northern Dynasty Minerals, and Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation have plans to dig one of the world’s largest open pit mines in pristine Alaska watershed above Bristol Bay. Bristol Bay, located in the Southeast corner of the Bering Sea, is home to the largest sockeye salmon run in the world. Over the last 20 years, the regional sockeye salmon harvest has averaged an impressive 25.5 million fish per year. Fingerling salmon, spawned in the vast array of surrounding tributaries spend the first year of their five-year life cycle in Bristol Bay before migrating out to sea.
The mine, as planned, would have a depth of 2000 feet and stretch for over two miles. Huge earthen dams, as high as 50 stories, would be depended upon to hold 10 Billion tons of mining waste mixed with cyanide, sulfuric acid, arsenic, and other toxic chemicals.
The region is known for seismic activity, adding to the danger of dam collapse.
Join Alaska native peoples, independant fishermen, activists, and members of the Natural Resources Defense Council to voice your opposition to this monstrous, reckless, foreign adventurism, in pursuit of America’s natural resources in America’s pristine wilderness.
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Cynthia Carroll, CEO Anglo American Corporation