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From TU:

Dream of fishing Bristol Bay? Been scheming about your next Alaska trip? Now’s the time to make it happen.  Through March 30th (the deadline was extended to give you a bit more time to get your fishing buddies together), book a trip with any one of 26 lodges or adventure camps listed with Alaska Fly Out and 5% of the trips cost will be donated to our Save Bristol Bay campaign. You fish. They donate. Its that simple.

Visit the folks over at Alaska Fly Out to learn more about lodge packages available and book your Alaska fishing adventures.

Food Retail Industry Flexes Its Muscle for Bristol Bay

Wonder how the pro Pebble crowd will try to spin this one.

The Food Marketing Institute, which represents 26,000 retail food stores, and $680 billion in annual revenue — three-quarters of US retail food store sales — announced its support for the EPA study currently underway to determine the suitability of large-scale development in Bristol Bay, including the Pebble Mine.

LINK (Via: The Cascade Inn)

Anglo American's Pebble Mine Poses High Risks for Investors

Bummer.

An investor advisory released today raises significant questions about the serious risks associated with Anglo American Pebble mine project in southwest Alaska. The advisory details the growing list of regulatory, legal, engineering, and political challenges facing the London-based mining giant as it struggles to secure permits for the controversial gold-copper mine planned for the headwaters of the Bristol Bay watershed, the world's biggest wild sockeye salmon fishery.

LINK (Via: Market Watch)

Dick of the Week - Pebble Executive Critical of Environmental Groups

Couldn't just stick to the data summary now could you Ken?

During last week’s Pebble Partnership update to lawmakers in Juneau, Vice-President Ken Taylor presented an overall summary of the data being released through its Environmental Baseline Document.  However, he could not complete his remarks in front of lawmakers in Juneau without addressing the opposition that exists to the Pebble Mine. Taylor feels that the groups opposing the Pebble Mine don’t want to see a wise use of Alaska’s resources.

Well at least he didn't call them terrorists.

LINK (Via: KSRM)

A little background on VP Ken Taylor from the Pebble Partnership.

Mr. Taylor has worked as a wildlife biologist in the State of Alaska for more than 30 years, most recently as Deputy Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Fish & Game. He spent 10 years as an Area Biologist in the region of southwest Alaska where Pebble is located.

You would think a biologist would have a greater appreciation for the environment they earned thier living working in for 10 years.

Nice gig for a retired state employee.

This Week in Bat Shit Crazy

The latest barrage of pro Pebble Mine bullshit comes courtesy of a Ron Arnold opinion piece in the Washington Examiner. 

You see poor Ron is tweaked that EPA head Linda Jackson would not meet with representatives of Nuna Resources. Not only is Ron upset that Jackson would not meet with the group, but poor Nuna can not compete with the,"large donors financing a slick AstroTurf campaign to "Stop Pebble Mine" and "Save Bristol Bay."

What Ron neglects to point out, amongst piles of other unadulterated bullshit, is that Nuna is financed and funded by the Pebble Partnership and that one of their board members is actually employed by Pebble.

Well now Resourceful Earth, part of the pro pebble noise machine, has picked up on Ron's article and are urging people to comment.

So take a read of Mr. Arnold's opinion piece and then scrolll through some of the thoughtful comments, unless of course you want to question your faith in humanity.

LINK (Via: The Washington Examiner)

The Real Gold Mine is Already There

 

The Pebble Limited Partnership recently released an Environmental Baseline Document (EBD) which "characterizes the existing physical, biological and social environments in study areas within the Bristol Bay and Cook Inlet regions." The Pebble EBD contains approximately 20,000 pages of data and analysis and is divided into 53 chapters plus appendices.

According to the Partnership, the document provides a significant legacy of publicly available data, regardless of whether or not the Pebble Project moves forward.

What the Partnership does not say is that it also provides a significant baseline of exactly what the Pebble Mine is going to screw up if the project moves forward.

LINK (Via: Alaska Public Org)

You can download the entire EBD chapter by chapter HERE.

Meanwhile the Wild Salmon Center and TU have released a new report that restates much of what we already know.

Examining a wide body of studies, reports, and the best available scientific information, the report analyzes preliminary proposals for the mine, concluding there is too much at stake ecologically, economically, and culturally to risk development of the Pebble deposit.

LINK (Via: Angling Trade)