Is Pebble Really Such a Gold Mine? Resounding majority of Bristol Bay residents say "No!"

A poll released on September 22 showed that an overwhelming majority of Bristol Bay residents strongly prefer their subsistence way of life to the promise of jobs at Anglo American’s proposed Pebble Mine. And on July 29, a Bristol Bay Alaska Native organization and several individuals filed a civil suit in Anchorage Superior Court on July 29 asserting that the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) repeatedly violated the Alaska Constitution in granting permits for exploration work at the Pebble Mine site. Learn more in this issue about what's going on with the Pebble Mine project and offshore drilling plans for Bristol Bay, as well as ACF's Community Capacity work.