Joe Faith

OPINION: Pebble Partnership, its lawyers and their supporters, including some elected leaders, play a high risk game with Bristol Bay's salmon and jobs, which are not theirs to gamble.

The Alaska Board of Fisheries recently requested that the state Legislature conduct a comprehensive evaluation of permitting standards related to Pebble mine, and that it enact any additional safeguards considered prudent to provide strict protections to fish and game habitat of the drainages to prevent any chance of environmental damage. The laws are not adequate.