Many of our guests ask us what is happening with the proposed Pebble Mine, thanks to your concern and generosity, we've helped keep it from happening. But we need your help to protect Bristol Bay for all generations!
From Nelli Williams, TU's Alaska Program Director:
Right now, Pebble is a shadow of its former self, and we should all celebrate this accomplishment. Because we are currently not battling a mining company with deep pockets and broad support from their industry, we have a unique opportunity in the coming year to put some larger lasting protections in place for Bristol Bay so we aren’t dealing with Pebble (or it’s equally bad cousin) down the road. In short our strategy includes: ensuring recreation and fish habitat are priorities in the state land management plan (currently mining is prioritized over recreation/fish habitat for much of the region); ensuring BLM lands in the area aren’t open to industrial scale mining; ensuring Pebble pays for existing clean up (and puts up a bond for future exploration activities); and convincing the Governor/legislature to permanently retire the leases at the Pebble site (stay tuned in November for step one of this process). None of this discussion could even really be happening if Pebble was its big, powerful former self, so now is the time to push forward. But, we need your help.
Also all donations (up to 50K) will be matched between now and the end of the year.
DONATE ONLINE: DONATE HERE
DONATE BY MAIL:
Trout Unlimited’s Alaska Program Attn: Sport Challenge
3105 Lakeshore Dr. #102B Anchorage, AK 99517
This is an easy way to give back to the place we all love to fish, that will have a big impact.