Monday, August 25, 2014 at 12:09AM The super-PAC backing Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) has released its first attack of the general election, ripping GOP Senate candidate Dan Sullivan for his support of the Pebble Mine.
(via: The Hill)
Monday, August 25, 2014 at 12:00AM 
Rick Halford is Republican to the core. The retired politician served the party in the Alaska state Legislature for 24 years, including stints as Senate president, as well as both Senate and House majority leader. Always, he has stood for free enterprise, individual rights and small business; typically, he’s been pro-development. He started “as a very seriously redneck Republican,” and saw little in his time in office to challenge his views.
But for Halford, there turned out to be one thing worse than a meddling federal government: Pebble Mine.
LINK (via: Salon)
Stop the Pebble Mine, fish politics in Mines Friday, August 22, 2014 at 12:00AM 
Clean up from the devastating Mt. Polley mine spill in B.C. could cost up to $500 million dollars. How much of a bond did Imperial Metals provide to assure regulators they could clean up a spill?
$14.5 million, or less than 3% of the max total cost.
So how much of a bond will regulators ask of Northern Dynasty if they allow the Pebble Mine to proceed?
Stop the Pebble Mine, mt polley mine in Mines Monday, August 18, 2014 at 5:45PM 
Yeah, let's put one of these at the headwaters of the greatest salmon habitat left on planet earth. It sure has been a rough few weeks for the open pit mining industry.
A toxic leak from Grupo Mexico’s Buenavista copper mine, that's the big hole pictured above, has contaminated the Bacanuchi and Sonora rivers in Northern Mexico.
The Buenavista mine, one of the largest copper mines in the world, is located in Cananea, Sonora, about 25 miles south of the U.S. border near Nogales, Arizona. The mine is operated by Grupo Mexico, one of the world’s largest copper producers. Grupo Mexico’s American subsidiary, Asarco, is nearing a deal to gain full ownership of the Silver Bell copper mine across the U.S. border in Marana, Arizona and has been subject to major environmental misconduct charges in the past relating to its mining operations.
Mine officials have been criticized for not reporting the massive acid spill to authorities for around 24 hours, with residents downstream detecting the spill the next day as it turned dozens of miles of river orange.
LINK (via: Think Progress)
A second mine in northern Mexico recently spilled over a half-million gallons of a cyanide solution used in heap-leach gold mining, after heavy rains caused a retaining pond to overflow.
LINK (via: Business Standard)
Stop the Pebble Mine in Environment, Mines Monday, August 18, 2014 at 12:00AM
The Mount Polley mine disaster has Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski talking out of both sides of her mouth. Murkowski is calling for greater oversight of Canadian mines while opposing any EPA action on Pebble.
LINK (via: US News)
Stop the Pebble Mine, lisa murkowski in Mines Tuesday, August 12, 2014 at 12:06AM 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.
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.
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