Pebble's PR Nightmare

In 2010 a Pebble Partnership ad touted the Mt. Polley mine’s proximity to healthy fisheries as a model for how mining and fishing can co-exist.

Then this happened.

Naturally, Pebble immediately scrubbed the ad from its You Tube channel. But as you can see in the video above, nothing quite goes away on the internet. 

When asked about the video's removal a Pebble spokesman gave this mealymouthed response.

The company removed the video “out of deference to the people affected by this incident,” though the company believes “the example in the ad remains valid.

Valid? What remains valid is that it is a bad idea to build giant open pit mines at the headwaters of salmon bearing rivers. 

One of Pebble's partners is also attempting to scrub their association with the Mount Polley tailings dam breach. Knight Piésold Ltd., the former Engineer of Record of the Mt. Polley tailings storage facility who also designed the Pebble tailings storage dam, is running from their work on Mt. Polley like a scalded cat.

Unfortunately for Pebble the EPA's Bristol Bay Proposed Determination public hearings are being held in Alaska this week while the images of the Mount Polley disaster are still fresh in the public's mind.