News — mines
Native Australian woman practices her culture's habits of "Living on Country" and fighting to preserve land from coal mines
Native Australian woman speaks of keeping her spirit up by being "on country" and fighting coal mines. she won the Goldman prize.
Inspiring leaders Win Goldman Environmental Prize
Save the Earth leaders win Goldman prize ( equivalent to Nobel prize)
Great News- Boundary Waters Wilderness Lakes, Streams, Wetlands, and Forests Saved from Copper Nickel Mine
Stop Mountain Top Removal- blowingup mountains and scraping off the forest to get at the coal while dumping the waste into rivers and the air.
link to jeff biggers salon article
support coal river mountain watch
Help Natives, Salmon, & Rivers - Stop Dirty Gold Mine
Trump and EPA head Pruitt just reversed the protection of Alaska's Bristol Bay salmon rivers. Please write your politicians and letters to the editor to protest this. Pruitt is approving a mine that will produce 10 million tons of mining waste at the headwaters of the watershed. Native-Americans, Alaskans, fishermen, and enviros oppose the Pebble mine.
Link: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/12/trumps-epa-chooses-foreign-mining-interests-over-critical-alaska-watershed
"Bristol Bay is a critical wild salmon fishery, providing 46 percent of the world's supply of wild sockeye salmon, according to the NRDC. Its fishery is worth $1.5 billion a year, and it provides habitat for 29 fish species, 40 terrestrial mammal species, and 190 bird species."