Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Planned Open-Pit Mine Stirs Environmental Fight (NPR)

Some worry that the proposed Pebble Mine in southwestern Alaska will end up poisoning the largest native sockeye salmon run in the world. But the company hoping to mine the tundra for copper and gold says it could keep contaminants sealed up and that fish would be unharmed.

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[Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for fishing alaska]

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