I strongly support resource development, but not the Pebble Project as currently designed.
Even a small spill of toxics in that location could ruin the world’s finest salmon habitat for our lifetime, maybe forever.
There have been too many worldwide unintended toxic mining waste releases to deny that as a very real possibility. This includes the recent South American release that occurred even though the storage pond had been certified as safe by an independent engineering firm.
So I ask if it’s feasible to mechanically concentrate the ore on site at the mine, then ship it to a deepwater port on Cook Inlet for further processing in a facility already in existence elsewhere. I believe one option could be to transport the concentrate through a pipeline as a slurry.
— Rick Garner
Anchorage
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