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  • Alaska fishermen circle their boats to fight mine
    LA Times (CA)
    By Kim Murphy
    August 4, 2010
    The project at the headwaters above Bristol Bay would be the largest open-pit mine in North America. The area is home to enormous salmon runs and majestic scenery – and billions of dollars in minerals.
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  • At meeting with EPA chief, residents united in opposition to Pebble
    The Cordova Times (AK)
    By Margaret Bauman
    July 29, 2010
    One by one, representatives of a dozen Southwest Alaska communities stood to tell the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of the threat they feel the massive Pebble mine prospect would pose to their way of life.
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  • Pebble could pollute perfect, porous habitat
    Anchorage Daily News
    By Jack Stanford
    July 25, 2010
    Executives with Pebble Limited Partnership and some of their high-profile supporters, like former House Speaker Gail Phillips, have recently made misleading statements about the location and potential impacts of the proposed Pebble Mine.
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  • Turning Miners into Fishing Guides At Bristol Bay
    Field & Stream Magazine Online
    July 16, 2010
    Here's an interesting story about an innovative program that trains Alaska Native youths from villages surrounding the Bristol Bay area to be fishing guides on the region's many rivers. Yes, that Bristol Bay...
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  • Group plans panels to discuss Pebble Mine impact
    Dayton Daily News
    By Becky Bohrer, The Associated Press
    July 8, 2010
    A nonprofit group plans a series of scientific panels to examine the potential impacts of developing a copper and gold prospect north of Lake Iliamna in the Bristol Bay watershed.
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  • Restaurants join Savor Bristol Bay campaign
    Anchorage Daily News
    By The Associated Press
    July 7, 2010
    Trout Unlimited has enlisted nearly 50 restaurants in Seattle and Portland in its campaign against the proposed Pebble Mine.
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  • South farmers market hosts salmon grill-off
    Anchorage Daily News
    By Steve Edwards
    June 15, 2010
    This Saturday's South Anchorage Farmers Market will turn into the Great Salmon Grill-off, with visitors eating and voting. Trout Unlimited Alaska is hosting a Savor Bristol Bay event Saturday at the market.
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  • Salmon study spawns new debate over Pebble Mine
    KTUU-TV, Anchorage, Alaska
    By Lori Tipton
    June 4, 2010
    A new study by two professors with the University of Washington looks at five decades of data from Bristol Bay salmon surveys and harvest records, as part of in-depth research into the bay's rich sockeye salmon fishery.
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  • Salmon study pits fish against Alaskan mega-mine
    Wired News
    By Brandon Keim
    June 2, 2010
    An Alaskan bay bitterly contested by fishermen and miners has become the site of a landmark study on population dynamics — and the findings favor the fish.
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  • Pebble supporters protest study
    Peninsula Clarion
    By Andrew Jensen Morris
    May 23, 2010
    A last-minute line item for three-quarters of a million in a $3.1 billion capital budget is stirring up a ruckus between the usual suspects. At issue is a $750,000 reappropriation to the Legislative Council...
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  • Study draws heat from Pebble supporters
    Alaska Journal of Commerce
    By Andrew Jensen
    May 20, 2010
    A last-minute line item for three-quarters of a million in a $3.1 billion capital budget is stirring up a ruckus between the usual suspects. At issue is a $750,000 reappropriation to the Legislative Council...
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  • PR push runs parallel to permit process for Pebble mine
    Alaska Journal of Commerce
    By Andrew Jensen
    May 7, 2010
    There are public relations challenges, and then there is the Pebble mine. It is nearly impossible to watch television or travel around Alaska without seeing an anti-Pebble mine message.
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  • Threatened Koktuli River deserves protection
    Anchorage Daily News
    By Tim Bristol
    May 2, 2010
    Some places deserve special protection based on their remoteness and remarkable qualities; the Koktuli River in Southwest Alaska is among these places. Unfortunately, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation seems to disagree.
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  • Austerman requests funding for Pebble study
    Kodiak Daily Mirror
    By Sam Friedman
    April 20, 2010
    An independent review of the proposed Pebble Mine may be in the works thanks to a last-minute funding request by Kodiak Rep. Alan Austerman. On Saturday, Austerman requested $750,000 for a third-party study in the state's capital budget.
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  • Hall follows 'Seasons of Subsistence' in photos
    Juneau Empire
    By Amy Fletcher
    March 18, 2010
    British-born photographer Nick Hall may seem an unlikely source for the images in "Seasons of Subsistence," an ongoing film project documenting Native life in Bristol Bay...
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  • Trout Unlimited asks for highest protection for Koktuli River
    The Bristol Bay Times
    By Tammy Judd
    February 18, 2010
    Trout Unlimited today has nominated the Koktuli River as an Outstanding National Resource Water, a designation which through the Clean Water Act would give the Koktuli River the highest protection to the river. The Koktuli River is near the site of...
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  • Fisheries board asks lawmakers for review of permit system
    Anchorage Daily News
    By Elizabeth Bluemink
    February 6, 2010
    The Alaska Board of Fisheries has sent a letter to state House and Senate leaders asking for a comprehensive legislative review of the state's permitting system in light of the proposed Pebble mine in Southwest Alaska.
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  • Dillingham passes resolution opposing Pebble
    The Bristol Bay Times
    By Tammy Judd
    January 8, 2010
    The Dillingham City Council passed a resolution on Thursday, Jan. 7, which opposes the proposed Pebble copper/gold mine in the Bristol Bay area.
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