Posted on 04/14/2012 12:18:32 PM PDT by pabianice
Dear
We only need to raise another $17,200 to run our hard-hitting ad next week in The New York Times. Please chip in whatever you can to help unite the world against the disastrous Pebble Mine. Even $10 will be a big help. Thank you.
On April 19, You Can Help Stop the Mining Giants from Destroying a Natural Treasure.
Help run our ad in The New York Times and spark nationwide opposition to the Pebble Mine during corporate shareholder meetings in London.
On April 19, we’re going to send the British-based corporations behind the Pebble Mine a message from America loud and clear:
It’s time to Take NO for an answer!
Read the full text of our new ad. Then please help us run it in the national edition of The New York Times next week.
The Anglo American and Rio Tinto companies keep pressing ahead with their disastrous plans for the Pebble Mine -- despite overwhelming opposition from the Native communities, fishermen and other residents of Bristol Bay, Alaska.
On April 19, we can make sure that Americans stand in solidarity with the people of Bristol Bay, in defense of one of our last and greatest wild places.
Our hard-hitting, full-page ad will turn up the heat on Anglo American and Rio Tinto on the day their shareholders meet in London. They will have to decide if they really want a share of environmental and financial disaster.
We need to raise $70,000 right away to get this ad placed in the Times and galvanize a well-timed national outcry against the global mining giants.
We will reach our goal in just 24 hours if a few thousand supporters like you each make a small donation. Will you help get us there?
Your support will help us wage this fight on both sides of the Atlantic. We’ll be running the same ad in the Financial Times in London, alerting the British public to the ugly truth: That two British-based mining companies are risking environmental disaster against the will of the people who depend on Bristol Bay for their survival.
On April 19, NRDC experts and representatives from Bristol Bay will make our case against the mine at the shareholder meetings in London.
Please donate now and help make sure that the American people speak with one voice on April 19 -- sending the mining giants a one-word message: NO!
Sincerely,
Frances Beinecke, President, Natural Resources Defense Council
The mine, and supporting activities, would provide significant tax revenue to the state. The State of Alaska predicts that direct mining tax revenue, even without Pebble, will be one of the most important sources of non-oil tax revenue (exceeding revenue from fishing).[72]
The mine will create well-paying jobs in an increasingly poverty-stricken region [73] — roughly 2000 jobs for construction, dropping to 1000 permanent jobs during the 30 to 60 year expected life span of the mine.[74]
The mine would provide a domestic resource of raw materials lowering the United States reliance on foreign sources.[75]
Protection of the environment and fisheries will be ensured by the stringent environmental review and permitting process, including an EIS, that is required before development is allowed.
Much of the poor environmental track record of mining is from a time before current technologies and regulations.
Northern Dynasty has a "no net loss" policy for fisheries.[76]
I love her bio. "Frances Gillespie Beinecke, born "circa 1960." Circa? They hadn't invited writing by 1960? Born into great wealth and of course an Ivy League education made her into the travesty we see before us today. In her save the world pictures she's wearing pearls. Pal of Obama's; appointed to many councils that work tirelessly with Soros money to punish job- and wealth-creators so she and her fellow toffey-noses can feel good about themselves and world socialism. And the Dems dare say "Ann Romney never worked a day in her life." That was another perfectly planned assassination of a conservative. Mistake my behind.
“one of our last and greatest wild places”
Living in civlization warps people’s brains. It’s clear no one has any clue how small a share of the whole has actually been developed. There’s more wild than anyone knows what to do with, or care about. They only care about this area, presumably, because people live around it.
Ping
Beineke, eh? Presumably descended from the Beineke who donated the Beineke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale.
I did some research there, once. Wonderful place. One of the few with a Gutenberg Bible.
Those were the days when the rich did useful things.
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