...Shields said the area was closed per the Northern District King Salmon Management Plan which specifies that if the Chuitna River is closed to sportfishing, the commercial king salmon fishery must close as well. Setnet fishermen in the rest of...
...the Draft Water Management Plan for the project, which was prepared for PacRim in 2010, three tributaries of the Chuitna River could be affected by the plan. The proposed mining area includes about 11 miles of one of those streams, which PacRim...
...will determine the fate of wild Alaska salmon for generations to come. Some folks from Texas want to strip-mine the Chuitna River watershed on the west side of Cook Inlet so they can send coal to China. To get to the coal, they want to destroy...
...Alaska is faced with a question: "Can we mine the Chuitna River?" The answer: probably. But I think that it's...right to allow a Texas-funded corporation destroy our Chuitna River (the Chuitna would never recover. Never.) just to...
...and rockfish. Oh, and we will get a really big hole. PacRim proposes to strip mine a salmon rich tributary of the Chuitna river. They project extracting 12 million metric tons of coal per year, for 25 years. This translates to the equivalent...
Coal under the Chuitna River? Let's see -- they want to jeopardize the wellbeing of one of our natural renewable resources (salmon) so they can sell coal...
...wetlands" and will ruin the salmon productivity in the Chuitna River. Not to mention that it will destroy Middle Creek by...7 million gallons of mine waste and runoff into the Chuitna River. The coal dust will not make it livable or healthy...
...salmon streams to facilitate mining. This one is for the Chuitna river coal project. DNR set the meeting in Kenai. Kenai...completely removed from the face of the earth. The Chuitna River will be filled with waste, to the tune of 7 million...
...presented and the state requires. The project is going to mine coal from under a salmon stream that flows into the Chuitna River if the state grants the permits, and a huge amount hurdles are overcome. In no way is this project going to destroy...
Our salmon runs in the Chuitna River are more important to us than a Delaware Corporation mining coal in Alaska to send to China. Would we allow PacRim Coal state...
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