Please comment on proposal to withdraw proposed Clean Water Act restrictions for mining the Pebble ore deposit. Comments are due October 17, 2017
ELECTRONIC COMMENTS: Submit HERE. Copy and paste your comments into the contact forms for your Senators and your Representative. What to say:
- Don’t put the interests of a foreign mining company above thousands of American jobs and keep the EPA’s Clean Water Act protections for Bristol Bay in place.
- I oppose this plan which basically puts the interests of a foreign mining company above those of two-thirds of Alaskans, 80% of Bristol Bay residents and indigenous communities, and 85% of commercial fishermen.
- The EPA has previously determined that the planned pebble mine would cause great damage to the unparalleled salmon runs and local fisheries as well as to local Native communities.
- The foreign owned pebble mine would cause significant damage to the world-renowned salmon runs of Bristol Bay. This fishery is worth moth than 1.5 million dollars a year and supports 14,000 jobs. All of this would be put at risk for the interests of a non-American mining company.
- More than 1.5 million Americans have previously submitted public comments opposing this pebble mine.
- Please listen to the local communities, the best available science and the American people and do not reverse course on this pebble mine.
POSTCARDS: Write "I oppose the EPA proposal to withdraw proposed Clean Water restrictions for mining the Pebble ore deposit in Bristol Bay."
Water Docket, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Mail Code 28221T
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20460
Attention: Docket ID No. EPA-R10-OW-2017-0369
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