Letters: No to mining Bristol Bay
Re “Save Bristol Bay,†Opinion, May 24
Common sense dictates that when it comes to massive open-pit mining in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, regulators should take the long view. If we get this wrong today, we won’t be able to fix it tomorrow — not for the area’s wild salmon, the native peoples, Alaska’s wilderness tourism business and this country’s vanishing wild places.
Once we seriously degrade or destroy nature, it is virtually impossible to repair the damage. Basically, when a wilderness is destroyed, it is gone forever.
The good of the people, the animals and nature far outweigh the interest of just three mining corporations, which will be able to survive fine without this project.
We should not mine near Bristol Bay. The benefits are for too few; the damage is for too many.
Jerry Small
Venice
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