Stand With Robert Redford Against Bristol Bay's Pebble Mine

Robert Redford and more than 300,000 Americans have voiced their opposition to the Pebble Mine in Alaska's Bristol Bay. The mega-mine would require colossal dams to hold back an estimated 10 billion tons of contaminated mining waste. An active earthquake zone, and at the headwaters of our planets greatest wild salmon river systems, the Pebble Mine would have disastrous environmental effects.

From NRDC:

Their Pebble Mine would be gouged out of an American paradise — filled with salmon, bears, moose, caribou, wolves and whales — that has sustained Native communities for thousands of years. Imagine a pit two miles wide by 2,000 feet deep, and an underground mine a mile deep. This gargantuan gold and copper operation would produce an estimated 10 billion tons of contaminated waste — 3,000 pounds for every man, woman and child on Earth. Massive earthen dams — some taller than the Three Gorges Dam in China — would be constructed to hold back that waste forever. Now imagine all this in an active earthquake zone at the headwaters of the largest sockeye salmon runs in the world. The threat to Bristol Bay just below is unimaginable.

Felt Soul Media's Red Gold showed at the festival in 2008, taking a close look at Bristol Bay and the proposed mine.

Pebble Mine is opposed by 80% of Bristol Bay residents. Join with them and take action.