Pit mine

Josh Mills with an important conservation story. Let me tell you a little about a need for comment regarding the potential nail in the coffin of the zombie mine in Alaska, known as the Bristol Bay Pebble Mine. The government has moved to use a section of the Clean Water Act known as the 404c section of the Clean Water Act, which would pull the permits. And I may be a little wrong on my details. I apologize, but this would be the necessary nail in the coffin to finally put the kibosh on the mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska. And as a reminder, different mining companies over the years have proposed to try and build the world's largest open pit mine at the headwaters of many of the greatest salmon bearing streams in the world. For instance, if you've eaten sockeye salmon at a fine restaurant anywhere, the majority of those fish are coming from Bristol Bay, Alaska. Last year, I believe, they set an all time high and had over 64 million fish returned to the bay, of which they take half. So 32 million fish were harvested approximately last year. And it's this renewable resource that we just cannot mess with. Those salmon form the backbone of the most productive ecological habitat in Alaska. The giant rainbows, char bears, everything depend on the salmon. Speaker1: We'll tell you how you can get involved in a future episode.