Tuesday
Mar082011
Mine executive says Pebble, fishing, can co-exist
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 12:00AM 
Sam Snyder pukes in mouth.
Cynthia Carroll of London-based Anglo American PLC told the Resource Development Council on Thursday that the Pebble Mine can be developed without polluting the watershed for the massive Bristol Bay salmon fishery.
What did they expect her to say?
Carroll took a shot at national campaigns that oppose the project.
"I do not accept that campaigning environmental groups from outside of Alaska, with strong vested interests in raising funds for opposing our project, have any legitimacy in the debate," she said.
The CEO of a London based mining conglomerate has issues with outside interests opposing their foreign owned project.
LINK (Via: Bloomberg Business Week)
tagged Stop the Pebble Mine in Conservation, Environment, News
Stop the Pebble Mine in Conservation, Environment, News
Reader Comments (8)
I'm confused by her tactics...
OK, then lets do a tiny sample mine somewhere in the area that won't effect the watershed. If in 10 years it is still rock solid, we'll explore taking it to the next level. But it if leaks, we kill her and all the people that worked on the project.
If she signs up for that deal, then I'd say her confidence is justified, but if not then she is full of shit and needs to walk the hell away.
i don't see any reason any companies from out side the alaska region has any legitimacy coming into the state to exploit the environment for an evil thing called money!!! geeze , these people are really mentally ill i think......
Yes, she is correct. Alaska is controlled by outside interests - namely Northern Dynasty Minerals and Anglo American.
Yes, I puked in my mouth at the talk. . . particularly when i realized they were classically serving bagels and lox!!! NIce touch Cynthia!
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...""Pebble can help spur the construction of modern transportation, communication and energy infrastructure that places like southwest Alaska desperately need to reduce their costs of living," she said."
I've said it before I'll say it again. Not everybody needs a big SUV, a crackberry, and a fucking sidewalk. In the Bay, modern transportation is a four-wheeler and a jet sled, modern communications work if you have a GCI phone.
That sound is Aldo Leopold, spinning in his grave.
Dear Anglo- American,
Fuck you.
Signed,
The People of Alaska.
Of course campaigning environmental groups from outside of Alaska, with strong vested interests in raising funds for opposing the project have legitimacy in the debate. These same groups aid in funding the continuation of a healthy fishery. These groups include some of the fine, upstanding, and environmentally conscious individuals that don't want to see one of the world's great salmonid fisheries tainted by "safe" mining. Safe according to money-grubbing human standards, maybe, but overall, a crooked, festering ingrown hair in an ecologically vital area...
The irony of the CEO of a BRITISH corporation hoping to mine on American soil with their CANADIAN partners astounds me. Go back to London you redcoat bitch.