Mining

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Pebble Mine, Alaska

December 28, 2007/7 Comments/in Mining /by John Amos

What could become one of the world’s biggest open-pit gold mines, called the Pebble Mine, is being proposed in southwest Alaska. Opponents of the plan, including sportsmen, commercial fisherman, many native Alaskans, and former Alaska governor Jim Hammond, are concerned that the mine could affect the economically important wild-salmon fishing and tourism industries. The mine […]

SkyTruth Image Galleries

December 18, 2007/in Biodiversity, Climate, Mining, Natural Gas, Oil & Gas /by John Amos

By the way, SkyTruth features an ever-growing collection of online image galleries that address issues like hardrock mining, oil and gas drilling, habitat loss, and pollution. The galleries include a variety of maps and pictures taken from public and commercial orbiting satellites, government aerial surveys, and out-the-window shots taken from low-flying aircraft (most of those […]