"For a while it looked like government had launched a two-pronged pincer attack to destroy the $2-billion-per-year sustainable salmon fishery in Alaska’s Bristol Bay.
Last summer, a ballot measure to restrict the amount of arsenic and other toxic pollutants mines could dump into Alaska’s waterways was defeated after Governor Sarah Palin spoke out against it. The measure would have prevented the proposed Pebble Mine, a massive gold and copper operation, from being located in the Bristol Bay’s pristine headwaters."
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