Bristol Bay fishermen jubilant over $1.50-a-pound red salmon price

Bristol Bay red salmon won't be worth a plug nickle if Northern Dynasty and their partners have their way with Bristol Bay.

Some helpful stats from the same article.

In Alaska alone, the Bristol Bay fishery supports 4,369 jobs in fishing and processing; plus 3,227 in Washington state; 2,143 in Oregon; 553 in California and 1,629 in other states, according to a recent report by researchers at the University of Alaska's Institute for Social and Economic Research. The fishery also creates an additional 7,800 jobs nationwide due to multiplier effects of retailing in grocery stores, restaurant and more and development of value-added products, they said.

All at risk if Pebble ever comes to fruition.

LINK (via:Alaska Dispatch)

The time has come to shit or get off the pot

Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski calls out the Pebble management team for not yet releasing their proposed mine plan.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2013/07/09/2968791/sen-lisa-murkowski-criticizes.html#storylink=cpy

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Pebble management comes back with, sorry Senator but the mine plan is too important to rush.

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Not this mine. Not this place.

Comment on the Pebble Coal Mine - Win a Trip to the Bunny Ranch

Life size weeble and anti tax crusader Grover Norquist has thrown his weight behind the Pebble coal mine.

No, that is not a typo.

LINK (via: Alaska Commons)

Meanwhile, diaper wearing purveryor of prostitutes Senator David Vitter is accusing Trout Unlimited of "bribing" supporters into commenting on a federal environmental study by offering them a chance to win a free fishing trip. 

This is a pretty low tactic to try and bribe support of their efforts to preemptively kill a job-creating project," Vitter said.

LINK (via: FOX Faux News)

Is the Pebble CEO walking away from responsibility on future mine closure?

Recently the New York Times published an op-ed from Native Alaskan and Olympic snowboarder Callan Chythlook-Sifsof which incuded a link to this video of John Shively talking about future mine closure scenarios.

“They take our resource, and they go somewhere else to spend their money.”

Here's what Pebble Partnership CEO (Chief Enema Officer) John Shivley had to say while on a lobbying trip to D.C. last week.

“You have to understand that the reason five senators from the West Coast can write a letter about the salmon industry, is because so many salmon fisherman don’t live in Alaska,” he said on Capitol Hill. “They take our resource, and they go somewhere else to spend their money.”

Unfortunatley for John there are four multinational problems with his line of reasoning.

The Pebble Limited Partnership is 50% owned by London-based Anglo American and 50% owned by The Northern Dynasty Partnership, which is a wholly owned Canadian-based subsidiary of Northern Dynasty Minerals Limited. Important stockholders in Northern Dynasty Minerals Limited include Kennecott which is a wholly owned affiliate of Rio Tinto, a British-Australian multinational metals and mining corporation and Mitsubishi, a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies.

So who really are the ones who are going to exploit the resources of Bristol Bay and spend the profits elsewhere? This is the same Shively who recently claimed the mine was going to add 15 billion dollars to the GDP of the United States.

This wasn't the only bullshit Shively was trying to spin.

He was also quoted as saying the commercial salmon industry in Alaska is losing its importance.

LINK via: KTOO)