[rktman]

And Stossel's shocked? LOL! Just do little research in to her uncle bob and waterkeepers or riverkeepers or whatever it is he's scamming. So, the proposed mine is approx 100 miles away. I guess that could be considered "near" if 10 thousand miles is your standard.

[RossA]

The proposed Pebble Mine is staggeringly big. The development will need a lot of energy; their,schemes to provide it are scary. Everythnig short of a nuclear power plant...but...hmmm...I havent seen a recent proposal.

[rktman]

NON print version:

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2017/05/28/foxs-john-stossel-exposes-new-york-times-green-baloney-rich-jfk

[BobL]

“it is in the watershed of Bristol Bay ... the mine could affect the fishery.”

If that’s the news standard, roughly 1/3 of the country drains in the Gulf of Mexico fishery (where most of our shrimp comes from).

Time to shut down the farms?

[monocle]

That’s what happens when the Clintons don’t get their cut.

[PIF]

Not a scam.

As you can see below most of the salmon tributaries drain into Lake Iliamna.

The Pebble mine might be 100 miles from nowhere but in Alaska that's no all that far, especially considering the salmon rivers in that district would be sterilized should a breach happen in the mine's retaining pond - no matter how well designed.

Here is the map of the fishing districts in BB:

Which side of the discussion one is on seems to boil down to a handful of mining jobs verses an established industry ... do you side with jobs and income for a small number of people for a relatively short period of time, or with a sustainable fishery which has employed and fed people worldwide for over a century; do you prefer salmon from fish farms filled with the goodness of antibiotics, food dye, cuprous oxide and other delicious additives, or do you prefer your salmon as nature created it?