Mining

Join Robert Redford in protesting Pebble Mine!


Please watch our new video about the Pebble Mine --
an environmental disaster waiting to happen. Then, send a message telling Anglo American that you won't allow them to destroy Bristol Bay's wildlife Eden. Urge the foreign mining giant to abandon its disastrous plans for the Pebble Mine.




Sample letter:

One thing the American people have learned from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is that sometimes the worst-case scenario really happens -- despite corporate promises to the contrary. As Anglo American continues its environmental and socioeconomic studies of the proposed Pebble Mine, I am standing with the communities of Bristol Bay who are overwhelmingly opposed to your risky plans, even more so in the wake of the ecological catastrophe caused by BP.

No matter how many assurances you give, we do not want another corporate giant gambling with the future of a critical ecosystem that supports prolific salmon runs, a vast array of wildlife, Native communities and thousands of sustainable jobs in fishing and tourism. The people of the Gulf states were given similar assurances that have proven to be hollow. BP claimed that a major spill was unlikely and that, in any case, a spill could be cleaned with little damage done. Today, we know better.

Anglo American is making similar promises, stating that it will develop a plan for the mine that is "environmentally responsible." But given that the Pebble Mine will generate some 10 billion tons of waste at the very headwaters of the pristine watershed that feeds Bristol Bay, even a small chance of catastrophe is too much to let you roll the dice with this irreplaceable ecosystem. Some risks are simply unacceptable. I urge you to accept the will of local residents, more than 80 percent of whom oppose the Pebble Mine.

If you do proceed, you will face relentless opposition from the Natural Resources Defense Council and our 1.3 million members and activists, who stand in solidarity with the Alaskan opposition and are helping take their cause to the international stage.

Now more than ever, in the wake of the environmental disaster in the Gulf, the world is watching your actions. I call on you to abandon the Pebble Mine.