The Pebble Mine is at the area of the star on this map. It is much larger than the star, but, it is where mining would begin. To the public these zealots simply say, "But, look how little land we are using."
The Pebble Mine straddles two watersheds.
Below is a real picture of this beautiful region of the country.
Can the USA please designate areas where fisheries are important to the economy of the USA as COMPLETELY off limits to exploitation by mining or drilling. Okay?
In the map below it is easy to note this area northeast of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands. It is also southwest of Denali National Park. But, there is also a greater problem than simply the immediate area that has to be considered.
These watersheds are upstream of the Alaskan Gyre. Any pollution entering those watersheds will be deposited in the Alaskan Coastal Current and enter the ocean currents. It is sort of like the BP Deep Horizon Oil Spill. It appears small in magnitude and contained along the USA coastline in respect to the global ocean sizes, but, it can become a monster to the world oceans very quickly.
There is just no way this "Pebble Anything" can be mined safely enough to justify WEALTH over HEALTH. How many fishery collapse can the USA "JUSTIFY" before it becomes obvious only the wealthy will have a safe food supply?
See the folks that will become wealthy from the mining don't have to worry about their food supply and don't care about anyone else's.
All these fisheries along the east and west coasts of North America fed the people of the USA and Canada. The interest the USA has in these fisheries is substantial.
March 13, 2008
By Felicity Barringer
Salmon collapse threatens fishing along U.S. West Coast (click here)
U.S. officials have indicated that they are most likely to close the Pacific salmon fishery from northern Oregon to the Mexican border because of the collapse of crucial stocks in California's major watershed.
That would be the most extensive closing on the West Coast since the federal government started regulating fisheries.
"By far the biggest," said Dave Bitts, a commercial fisherman from Eureka, California, who is at a weeklong meeting of the Pacific Coast Fisheries Management Council in Sacramento.
"The Central Valley fall Chinook salmon are in the worst condition since records began to be kept," Robert Lohn, regional administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service in Portland, Oregon, said Wednesday in an interview. "This is the largest collapse of salmon stocks in 40 years."
Although the Washington and Alaska fisheries are not affected, the California and Oregon ones produce "some of the most valuable fish, ones that are prized from West Coast seaports all the way to East Coast restaurants," Lohn said....
Uploaded on Tuesday 21 Feb 2012
by GRID-Arendal
Collapse of Atlantic cod stocks off the East Coast of Newfoundland in 1992 (click here)
Year: 2007
From collection:
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Author:
Philippe Rekacewicz, Emmanuelle Bournay, UNEP/GRID-Arendal
Description:
From the late 1950s, offshore bottom trawlers began exploiting the deeper part of the stock, leading to a large catch increase and a strong decline in the underlying biomass. Internationally agreed quotas in the early 1970s and, following the declaration by Canada of an Exclusive Fishing Zone in 1977, national quota systems ultimately failed to arrest and reverse the decline
Whether Wealth Merchants like it or not, they have to answer to a great good. These areas are 'the commons' where most every person has an interest whether they know it or not.
The Commons are why there are brain trusts in the country and why people are paid to monitor and assess them. The Commons puts food on the table of every American and they are important to our national security through health, food and water security. Just that simple. The Commons are off limits to exploitation that leads to their decline, pollution and/or collapse. And they certainly CANNOT contribute to a broader deterioration of our oceans.
You know the MBTA was drafted to protect the birds with international flyways to insure their existence and safety. There needs to be international treaties that IDENTIFY 'The Global Commons.' The ocean gyres and currents are such realities that don't change to accommodate industry. There is no way the pollution of the USA should be visiting foreign shores and where it does, there needs to be substantial fines to clean it up and COMPENSATE for the damage at all.
The USA has an interest in The Global Commons, ie: Tourism on the west coast of the USA, including Hawaii, since Fukushima. Whether the state governments want it admit it or not, there are tourists that won't travel there now.
Contributed by - New Westminster News Leader
posted Feb 27, 2014 at 4:00 PM
Fraser River Salmon is a B.C. icon. (click here)
As important to B.C. residents, in fact, as the French language is to people in Quebec.
At least that’s what 70% of people said in a poll commissioned by the Watershed Watch Salmon Society and Skeena Wild Conservation Trust.
Indeed, salmon is ever present in our lives.
It is central to many aboriginal cultural traditions. Crucial to generations of commercial fishers. It’s delicious and nutritious, and a source of enjoyment for sports fishers. As well, it’s a symbol for the abundant and pristine environment we enjoy in this province.
But are we aware of the essential role salmon play in giving balance to our ecosystem?...
I can't wait to see what kind of concrete bullshit Halliburton is going to come up with like fracking to solve the problem. It will be amazing and more dangerous than anything imaginable.
