Nautilus Reels, in collaboration with the S. Kent Rockwell Foundation, has created a limited edition ‘No Pebble Mine XM reel’, with its sales helping to benefit the Sportsman’s Alliance of Alaska (SAA) and its efforts to protect Bristol Bay and the world class salmon fishery from a potentially devastating mining project. Only 25 individually numbered […]
A major potential backer of the controversial plan to develop one of the world’s most precious salmon fisheries has pulled out of the project. Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM) has announced that First Quantum Minerals (FQM), a Canadian mining company, will not participate in the Pebble Mine project, a plan to develop the Bristol Bay region […]
After a backroom settlement with the Pebble Limited Partnership in May, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to remove the protections that the agency put forward in 2014. These common sense restrictions on the disposal of mining waste in two of Bristol Bay’s most prolific watersheds were requested by Alaskans and supported by 1.5 […]
The long-running battle to protect Bristol Bay from the proposed Pebble Mine has been renewed. To recap, in 2014 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – after years of exhaustive study and massive public participation – proposed a set of common-sense restrictions on disposal of mine waste in two of Bristol Bay’s most productive watersheds (the […]