Big mine big numbers
-"The Pebble Mine operational life could exceed 100 years."
-"After processing 99% of this mined rock would remain as waste to be stored on-site forever."
-"More than 99% of processed ore becomes a solid-water-chemical waste(tailings) that must be stored within large impoundments."
-"The worlds most productive wild salmon fishery is threatened with the proposed development of nearly 1000-square mile mining district at the headwaters of its most productive river drainages."
-"The PLP (Pebble Limited Partnership) has identified as much as 8.2 billion tons of ore."
-"Bristol Bay sockeye salmon account for over 33% of the total value of the states salmon fisheries."
-"The sockeye salmon are the only salmon to rear in a lake 1-2 years before going to sea, the worlds largest sockeye salmon runs are found in Bristol Bay, Alaska."
-"Alaska accounts for 95% of all Pacific salmon landings in the United States due in large part to Bristol Bay salmon harvests."
-"Pebble would require the worlds largest earthen dam to be built, some 700 feet high and several miles in length."
-"More than 40 species of vertebrates, including salmon, trout, birds and mammals directly benefit from annual salmon runs y feasting on salmon."
info from:
http://www.savebristolbay.org/about-the-bay/about-pebble-mine
http://www.cf.adfg.state.ak.us/geninfo/features/b bay/bayvisit.php
