EPA: Alaska mine project could hurt salmon streams - Anchorage Daily News
4.26.13
By BECKY BOHRER — Associated Press JUNEAU, ALASKA — Build-out of a large-scale mine near the headwaters of a world-class salmon fishery in Alaska could wipe out as many as 90 miles of streams and alter stream flows, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a revised assessment released Friday....read more
'Protect Bristol Bay' Says Out-Going Interior Head - KMXT 100.1 FM Kodiak
4.16.13
In a recent public web chat, friend and colleague of Renewable Resources, Verner Wilson, asked the outgoing interior secreaty, Ken Salazar, about Bristol Bay. Here's what Secreatry Salazar had to say. --...read more
Engineers look for ways to repair dam breach -- Metro News Canada
12.19.12
SOUTH BROOK, N.L. – The government of Newfoundland and Labrador says an excavator was working at a dam when it began leaking this week, causing restrictions to be placed on a town’s water use on the north coast of the province.The water warning was issued for South Brook by the Environment Department on Monday because of a ruptured dam around a tailings pond at a former copper mine....read more
The Bristol Bay Fisheries Reserve
12.1.12
The Bristol Bay Fisheries Reserve was established by the Alaska Legislature and then Senator, Jay Hammond, to protect the salmon of the region from the potentially harmful effects of oil and gas development. The establishment of the reserve acknowledged the statewide economic and cultural importance of the bristol bay region....read more
EPA adds second layer of peer review
11.30.12
The EPA has announced that it will add another round of peer review feedback to its Bristol Bay Watershed Assesment. Here's more on the announcement from The Bristol Bay Times. -- By Carey Restino on November 30, 2012...read more