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Learn About
The Montana mining experience
and Lessons Learned ... or Not? :

- Includes a case study of various modern open pit mines in Montana, the surety bonds they were required to post by the state prior to development and what happens when the mining companies file bankruptcy.

Are Alaskan mining regulations adequate to prevent the proposed Pebble Mine from becoming another Superfund site? Read more about The Montana Experience >>>

  

Lead Story - Sport fishing industry pressures Governor - Elect Palin.
- See the full page ads running in Fish Alaska Magazine >

- Jewelers Being Asked to Boycott Gold from Pebble Mine, read the
Anchorage Daily News story.

- The Bureau of Land Management proposes to open over 1 million
acres of federal land in the Bristol Bay area to open pit strip mining. This would greatly expand the area already threatened by the Pebble Mine.

Deadline to voice comments to the BLM is February 4, 2007

For more information, click here.
 

Other Recent Developments:

For the latest developments in the effort to save the renewable resources of the Bristol Bay Watershed, read more >>>

  

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