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"[It] would devastate the Indigenous communities. Taking our salmon away would be like what happened to the lower 48 Indians when they took their buffalo away.” -Tom Tilden, the First Chief of the Curyung Tribal Council, speaking in the documentary “We Can’t Eat Gold”, a feature on the proposed Pebble Mine project in Southwestern Alaska. As reported by ICTMN, the Pebble Mine project involves “a partnership between some the world’s largest multinational mining corporations to build one the biggest open pit gold, copper and molybdemum mines on earth. The project runs a high risk of polluting Bristol Bay and ruining the salmon run, which provides physical, cultural and spiritual sustenance to the Yup’ik communities along the bay’s tributaries, and supports a $500 million commercial and sports fishery as well." -via https://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork/2013/08/07/how-make-prior-consent-work-you-150776
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 03:02:52 +0000

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