Stop the Pebble Mine!
Foreign Companies Threaten an American Paradise with 10 Billion Tons of Mining Waste.
Global mining giants—including the Anglo American and Rio Tinto corporations—want to gouge one of the world’s largest open-pit gold and copper mines out of Alaska’s incomparable Bristol Bay wilderness.
Near my home in Utah, Rio Tinto's massive Bingham Canyon Mine is one of the biggest man-made excavations on Earth and has rendered a large area of local groundwater too polluted for human consumption. Now, the Rio Tinto and Anglo American companies want to build an even bigger mine — the Pebble Mine — at the headwaters of our planet's greatest wild salmon river systems. It's an environmental tragedy waiting to happen.
-Robert Redford, Conservationist and NRDC Board Member
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Belugas and Mining Don't Mix!
There are only five populations of belugas left in Alaska and the proposed Pebble Mine threatens two of them.
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DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN
The Pebble Mine could trigger an ecological disaster.
THE LAST OF THEIR KIND
Extinction is forever.
What's at Stake
The Pebble Mine would be gouged out of an American paradise — filled with salmon, bears, moose, caribou, wolverines and whales — that has sustained Native communities for thousands of years.
This gargantuan gold and copper operation would produce an estimated 10 billion tons of contaminated waste — 3,000 pounds for every person on Earth. All this in an active earthquake zone at the headwaters of the largest sockeye salmon runs in the world. The threat to Bristol Bay just below is undeniable.
Progress Report
We're waging a worldwide campaign aimed at mobilizing overwhelming opposition to the Pebble Mine.
Here are a few recent developments:
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November 2011
Poll: 81% of Bristol Bay native shareholders oppose mine
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October 2011
Local voters reject Pebble Mine
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June 2011
BioGems Defenders answer call to action to save belugas
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April 2011
Robert Redford ad runs in New York Times
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April 2011
NRDC delivers message to Rio Tinto
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February 2011
Mitsubishi withdraws from Pebble Mine
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October 2010
We tell Anglo: "No More Broken Promises!"
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