Stop the Proposed Pebble Mine
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Whereas the Bristol Bay in Southwest Alaska is one of the few remaining pristine habitats left on earth;
Whereas the Bristol Bay is home to the largest wold sockeye salmon fishery;
Whereas the Bristol Bay is the richest commercial wild salmon fishery in the world, generating $320 million dollars a year in commercial fishing and employing over 12, 500 people;
Whereas the Bristol Bay generates $60 million dollars in revenue from sports fishing;
Whereas, subsistence hunting, gathering and fishing is vital to the subsistence way of life of Alaska Native people in the region
Whereas the proposed Pebble Mine would be the largest mine in North America, would create 9 billion tons of waste, would require the construction of a 100 mile road, would use more water per year than the city of Anchorage consumes, and that contamination of the water is imminent.
Whereas the permitting process has never turned down a mining permit and does not inspire any confidence for protecting the region's environment:
Whereas environmental record of the mining industry, including Anglo-American, is dismal:
Whereas, fish are a renewable and sustainable resource and mining is not;
Whereas, we take seriously everyone's moral obligation to stop cultural genocide:
Be it therefore resolved that we oppose the Proposed Pebble Mine in order to preserve the region's economic, environmental, and cultural survival.
Whereas the Bristol Bay is home to the largest wold sockeye salmon fishery;
Whereas the Bristol Bay is the richest commercial wild salmon fishery in the world, generating $320 million dollars a year in commercial fishing and employing over 12, 500 people;
Whereas the Bristol Bay generates $60 million dollars in revenue from sports fishing;
Whereas, subsistence hunting, gathering and fishing is vital to the subsistence way of life of Alaska Native people in the region
Whereas the proposed Pebble Mine would be the largest mine in North America, would create 9 billion tons of waste, would require the construction of a 100 mile road, would use more water per year than the city of Anchorage consumes, and that contamination of the water is imminent.
Whereas the permitting process has never turned down a mining permit and does not inspire any confidence for protecting the region's environment:
Whereas environmental record of the mining industry, including Anglo-American, is dismal:
Whereas, fish are a renewable and sustainable resource and mining is not;
Whereas, we take seriously everyone's moral obligation to stop cultural genocide:
Be it therefore resolved that we oppose the Proposed Pebble Mine in order to preserve the region's economic, environmental, and cultural survival.
468 Signatures
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Samantha Small
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Heidi Chiklak
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- I want this mine to be stopped and put to an end right now!!! I seriously to not want it to go through!
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Alicia zackar
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- pebble is blah
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Scot Jacobs
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Charli Duke
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- Stop the mine!
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Nick Bouker
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- pebble mine sucks
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tiera schroeder
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Shawn Gardiner
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Jeremy Olson
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Stacey Rolf
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Girla Sorensen
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- It is our future going to be ruined. Stop cultural genocide.
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Amelia Giordano
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dylan wassily
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Rollyn Petla
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Kenneth Savo
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- I [[HATE]] the Pebble Mine!!!
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Kaley Rolf
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- The Pebble Mine is going to ruin our environment.
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Mariah Dray
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- All of our fishes are going to be gone if the pebble mine proceeds.
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Frank Cline
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- Please do not do the pebble mine!! :(
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Daniel Blakey
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- We simply can't risk it!
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Kristin Clark
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- no pebble mine.
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Branden Schlosser
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Alannah Hurley
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Shannon Swift
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Melinda Gardiner
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Susan Jenkins-Brito
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- Rebel to the Pebble
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Bristelle Larsen
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David Aplin
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- Leave the Unobtanium in the ground and protect our fisheries and way of life
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Shelley Woods
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- No Pebble!!
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Maria Saena
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- Our land and sea are hurting enough with global warming, We see the actions already, if the Pebble Mine goes through our fish, mammals and land will be destoyed. WE NEED TO PROTECT WHAT WE HAVE NOW!! It's not just ALASKA that will be affected but US AS A NATION!! People from all over the states comes into Alaska to make money with our fish, our fish our top rated, mammals and birds migrate. We need to look at this as a BIG picture, and not of the now!!
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Lorelle Tupuola
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Manuel S. Anelon
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Jon Corbett
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Ariela Begaye
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Margaret Aldridge
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alisha folsom
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- no pebble mine!
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mark carty
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Samuel Snyder, PhD - John Daniels Fellow, National Sporting LIbrary
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- A mine of the magnitude could have disasterous conserquences for the history, cutlure, and fisheries in Bristol Bay. At a time when salmon populations are on the brink of survival globally, Bristol Bay represetns the closest thing we have to a sustainable fishery. Cultures have depended upon the fishery for over 7000 years and over 7000 ALaskans depend upon this fishery for employement annually. Please do not put this heritage, culture, and resource at stake.
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Janna Lafferty
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petla noden
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- I am the Land and Waters of Bristol Bay
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Loulare Moore
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- Protect native cultures!
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Heather Nudlash
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Kimberly Williams
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Vernajean Kolyaha
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- Pedro Bay, AK
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Rebecca Noden
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Peter D. Glickenhaus, Jr.
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Apayo Moore
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- Save something our upcoming generations.
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Bryan m fritze
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Lance Holter
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- The greatest salmon fishery on earth and thousands of people's subsistence, as well as, a $400 million yearly ecnomic benifit is at risk by short sited mineral extraction conglomerates. Salmon, clean water and people are more valuable than gold and copper industries which will destroy this great land forever.
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Peter Johnson
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Margaret Pletnikoff
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