Bristol Bay plan boosts mine, not habitat

The Alaska Board of Fisheries recently requested that the state Legislature conduct a comprehensive evaluation of permitting standards related to Pebble mine, and that it enact any additional safeguards considered prudent to provide strict protections to fish and game habitat of the drainages to prevent any chance of environmental damage. The laws are not adequate.

– Joe Faith of Dillingham, a commercial and subsistence fishermen and lawyer, writing in the Anchorage Daily News

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