The document discusses the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska. It would be a massive open-pit gold and copper mine that threatens to pollute the watershed and disrupt the salmon fishery. The Bristol Bay fishery supports over 10,000 jobs and is the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery. Opponents argue the mine poses too great a risk to the fishery and wildlife. The EPA will release a scientific assessment of the mine's environmental risks in April 2012.
Restoration experts from Ducks Unlimited, The Nature Conservancy, and the Lower Fox River/Green Bay Areas of Concern will discuss case studies of partnerships turning federal GLRI funding into successful on-the-ground habitat restoration projects that provide a variety of ecological and societal benefits that can be sustained well into the future. Featured case studies include successfully restoring coastal marsh for waterbirds and for northern pike, using watershed-based GIS planning tools to prioritize restoration projects, and the reestablishment of the Cat Island Chain of islands in lower Green Bay. This presentation was given by Janet Smith, Chair of the Biota and Habitat Work Group of the Science and Technical Advisory Committee for the Lower Fox River/Green Bay Area of Concern, Retired U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Restoration experts from Ducks Unlimited, The Nature Conservancy, and the Lower Fox River/Green Bay Areas of Concern will discuss case studies of partnerships turning federal GLRI funding into successful on-the-ground habitat restoration projects that provide a variety of ecological and societal benefits that can be sustained well into the future. Featured case studies include successfully restoring coastal marsh for waterbirds and for northern pike, using watershed-based GIS planning tools to prioritize restoration projects, and the reestablishment of the Cat Island Chain of islands in lower Green Bay. This presentation was given by Janet Smith, Chair of the Biota and Habitat Work Group of the Science and Technical Advisory Committee for the Lower Fox River/Green Bay Area of Concern, Retired U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The U.S. Department of Interior will make a decision on whether they plan to lease the North Aleutian Basin (Bristol Bay) for offshore oil and gas drilling that could jeopardize fisheries, wildlife and the communities they support while offering few jobs and benefits to local residents.
Be Involved: Attend a presentation and discussion! Hear the facts, discuss the proposal, and learn how to comment to decision-makers by the September 21st comments deadline. There will be refreshments, information and a chance to sound off! It’s free and open to the public.
Tuesday August 25th: 7pm @ the Sand Point City Council Chambers
If you cannot join in person, call in by teleconference!
Call toll free: 866-469-3239, passcode 56213498.
Questions or need more information? Visit www.protectfishing.wordpress.com
Sponsored by World Wildlife Fund
A photographic tour of Moon Island and Long Island in Boston Harbor. Of particular interest is the former sewage storage facility on Moon Island and its potential for use in aquaculture.
Adventure Trek to Childs Glacier on Alaska's Copper River Cooking Up a Story
One of the top tourist sites in Alaska, the Childs Glacier is now only accessible by boat. The 56 mile Copper River Highway that leads from Cordova to the Million Dollar Bridge is no longer passable beyond mile 36.
This is also the general location of the US Fish and Game sonar station used to monitor (primarily) the sockeye salmon populations from the middle of May through to the end of July. The purpose of this sonar station is to insure that there are adequate numbers of sockeye salmon escaping upstream for sport, personal and subsistence fishing, and to ensure adequate numbers of Copper River salmon are able to reach their spawning grounds 300 miles from the Gulf of Alaska.
Presentation on Boscastle flooding event that occured in UK in 2004. Provides some valuable information for A-level Geography students as a case study.
Aquaculture in canada and effects of ha bsDhiman GAIN
Importance of Aquaculture in Canada
Fisheries Production
Finfish
Shellfish
Effects of HABs on Salmon production
Effects of HABs on Shellfish production
Effects of Salmon production on HABs
Occurrence of HABs
Eutrophication status in Canada
Hydrography (Lakes Vs Open sea)
Identification of the HA sources
Monitoring programs
Summary and Conclusions
The U.S. Department of Interior will make a decision on whether they plan to lease the North Aleutian Basin (Bristol Bay) for offshore oil and gas drilling that could jeopardize fisheries, wildlife and the communities they support while offering few jobs and benefits to local residents.
Be Involved: Attend a presentation and discussion! Hear the facts, discuss the proposal, and learn how to comment to decision-makers by the September 21st comments deadline. There will be refreshments, information and a chance to sound off! It’s free and open to the public.
Tuesday August 25th: 7pm @ the Sand Point City Council Chambers
If you cannot join in person, call in by teleconference!
Call toll free: 866-469-3239, passcode 56213498.
Questions or need more information? Visit www.protectfishing.wordpress.com
Sponsored by World Wildlife Fund
A photographic tour of Moon Island and Long Island in Boston Harbor. Of particular interest is the former sewage storage facility on Moon Island and its potential for use in aquaculture.
Adventure Trek to Childs Glacier on Alaska's Copper River Cooking Up a Story
One of the top tourist sites in Alaska, the Childs Glacier is now only accessible by boat. The 56 mile Copper River Highway that leads from Cordova to the Million Dollar Bridge is no longer passable beyond mile 36.
This is also the general location of the US Fish and Game sonar station used to monitor (primarily) the sockeye salmon populations from the middle of May through to the end of July. The purpose of this sonar station is to insure that there are adequate numbers of sockeye salmon escaping upstream for sport, personal and subsistence fishing, and to ensure adequate numbers of Copper River salmon are able to reach their spawning grounds 300 miles from the Gulf of Alaska.
Presentation on Boscastle flooding event that occured in UK in 2004. Provides some valuable information for A-level Geography students as a case study.
Aquaculture in canada and effects of ha bsDhiman GAIN
Importance of Aquaculture in Canada
Fisheries Production
Finfish
Shellfish
Effects of HABs on Salmon production
Effects of HABs on Shellfish production
Effects of Salmon production on HABs
Occurrence of HABs
Eutrophication status in Canada
Hydrography (Lakes Vs Open sea)
Identification of the HA sources
Monitoring programs
Summary and Conclusions
During the summer of 2008, people living near the PinedaleMesa (so.docxsleeperharwell
During the summer of 2008, people living near the Pinedale
Mesa (sometimes called the Pinedale Anticline) in
Wyoming were anxiously waiting for the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) to issue a decision regarding whether
Questar and other energy companies would be allowed
to drill thousands of ugly natural gas wells all over the
serene wilderness that lay atop the mesa. The Pinedale
Mesa is a 40-mile-long, 300-square-mile plateau extending
north and south along the eastern side of Wyoming’s
Green River Basin, an area that is famous as the gateway to
the hunting, fishing, and hiking treasures of the Bridger-
Teton wilderness. The city of Pinedale, which sits below
the mesa, a short distance from its northern end, was already
surrounded by hundreds of recently drilled wells
that ceaselessly pumped natural gas from the vast pockets
that are buried underneath the region and which are estimated
to contain 25 trillion cubit feet of gas worth billions
of dollars.
Questar Corporation, an energy company with assets
valued at about $4 billion, is the main developer of the gas
wells around the city and had already drilled several wells
up on the mesa that overlooked the city. Occasionally elk,
mule deer, pronghorn antelope, and other wildlife, including
the imperiled greater sage grouse, descend from their
habitats atop the mesa and gingerly pick their way around
and between the wells Questar drilled around Pinedale.
Not surprisingly, environmentalists were at war with Questar
and the other energy companies, whose plans to expand
their operations on the mesa, they claimed, would
have serious negative effects on the wildlife on the mesa as
well as on the beauty of the area.
The federal government’s Bureau of Land Management
(BLM) was responsible for deciding what was done
with the acreage on the mesa. Of 198,034 acres on the
mesa, the federal government owns 158,000, Wyoming
owns 9,800, and 29,800 are privately owned. In 2000, the BLM had authorized limited drilling on the mesa, but had
imposed several restrictions that protected wildlife from
the full impact of the drilling. In 2008, the Bureau was being
asked by Questar and the other companies who wanted
to drill on the mesa to remove its limits on drilling by allowing
more than 4,300 additional wells, as well as to lift
one of the restrictions that cushioned the drilling’s impact
on wildlife but had proven very costly to the companies.
Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Questar Corporation
drilled its first successful test well on the Pinedale
Mesa in 1998. Extracting the gas under the mesa was
not feasible earlier because the gas was trapped in tightly
packed sandstone that prevented it from flowing to the
wells and no one knew how to get it out. It was not until
the mid-1990s that the industry developed techniques
for fracturing the sandstone and freeing the gas. Full-scale
drilling had to await the completion of an environmental
impact statement, which the Bureau of Land Management
(BLM) finished in mi.
Ashley Von Essen presented Habitat Work Group's ranked project list for the 2015 Salmon Recovery Funding Board cycle. She presented at the July 2015 NRC meeting.
"Engaging Diverse Communities in Social Ecological Restoration: The Mysterious and Inspiring Case of the Klamath Basin Agreements" presented by Dr. Hannah Gosnell on June 19 to the 2014 PI Works! conference in Bend, Oregon.
SILPT along with other conservation groups co-sponsored a community forum on the potential for oil & gas and mineral extraction in Custer County on January 22, 2013 at the West Custer County Library.
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WestCONnex New M5: Green and Golden Bell FrogsWAGSydney
Presentation by biological scientist Grant Webster on the endangered Green and Golden Bell Frog population at Kogarah Golf Club, Arncliffe, which is now under threat from WestCONnex. Other biodiversity threats also covered.
4. Pebble Mine
• The Pebble Mine would extract gold, copper and
molybdenum, but the ore is low-grade and filled
with sulfur.
• This risky development would staddle two of the
Bay’s most important salmon streams in the
Kvichak and Nushagack River drainages.
• It would be a 2,000 foot deep open-pit gold and
copper mine stretching over 2 miles.
• P.M. would create gigantic dams and enormous
amounts of waste including cyanide, sulfuric
acid, arsenic and other toxic chemicals.*
5. Pebble Mine
• The industrial infrastructure would include
transmission lines
• 86 miles of shipping roads
• The dredging of Cook Inlet- home to the
endangered Cook Inlet beluga whale- for a
new deep water shipping port
• A 100 mile road into wilderness
• Construction of a power plant big enough
to supply the city of Anchorage
6. Pebble Mine
• The mine will siphon 70 million gallons of
freshwater a day- nearly 35 billion gallons
per year, critically reducing flow to multiple
salmon rivers.
• The mine would sit in an earthquake-
prone area near the Lake Clark fault, a
135-mile tectonic zone, and just 125 miles
north of the site of the infamous 1964
earthquake- the largest in North American
history.
• P.M. would create permanent destruction
8. The Multinational Mining
Companies
• The Pebble Mine is proposed by a 50:50
joint venture between UK based Anglo
American and Canadian company
Northern Dynasty
• Report by Nunamta Aulukestai, a coalition
of 9 village corporations leading the effort
to stop the mine.*
• Investor advisory released Feb 22, 2012*
10. Proponents
• Iliamna Village Native Corporation
supports the project.
• Proponents argue that the mine will create
jobs, provide tax revenue to the state of
Alaska, and reduce American dependence
on foreign sources of raw materials.
• According to the Pebble Partnership, the
mine would create about 1,000 long term
jobs.
11. Opposition to the Pebble Mine
• Opponents argue that the mine would
adversely affect the entire Bristol Bay
watershed and that the possible
consequences to fish populations, when
effluents escape planned containments,
are simply too great to risk.
• Thousands of local jobs are supported by
the sustainably-managed salmon fishery.
• There has been a barrage of legal,
political and regulatory hurdles over the
last year.
12. Opposition to the Pebble Mine
• 54% of Alaskans oppose Pebble when
they support oil, mining, tourism and other
industries
• 81% of Bristol Bay Native Corp. oppose
• Sea to Table is teaming with Chefs
Collaborative and Trout Unlimited
• The Food Market Institute*
• Bristol Bay Regional Seafood
Development Association*
13. Opposition to the Pebble Mine
• Over 50 leading US and UK jewelers,
including Tiffany & Co., with sales of $5.5
billion have launched the “No Pebble
Pledge” campaign.
• Nearly 30 investors*
• Citizen Review*
• The Nature Conservancy studied the
project and concluded the risks to wild
salmon populations are “very high.”
15. EPA’s Watershed Assessment
• In response to requests from the Bristol Bay
commercial fishing industry and the Bristol Bay
Native Corporation.
• Supported by Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley and
Washington Senators Maria Cantwell and Patty
Murray.
• Supported by investors representing $170 billion
assets and 13 million shares of Anglo American
• Congress will conduct a hearing on the project
by June 2012.
• EPA will release results from a scientific
assessment in April 2012
16. Formosa Mine Superfund Site
• This 76 acre site in Oregon in the South
Umpqua drainage was a copper/zinc mine.
• In 1997, the acid mine drainage control system
failed and toxic pollution was released into the
South Fork of Middle Creek and elsewhere
downstream.
• 18 miles of fish habitat below the mine was
severely degraded and the fishery was
destroyed.
• Taxpayers are now footing the bill to clean up
the Formosa Mine, a small fraction of the size of
the Pebble Mine projected at 54.5 square miles.
18. Bristol Bay Salmon Fishery
• Alaska’s Bristol Bay Fishery is the world’s
largest wild sockeye salmon fishery.
• Up to 40 million sockeye salmon return to Bristol
Bay each year.
• The US Dept of Fish and Game forecasts 21
million sockeye salmon will be harvested from
Bristol Bay in 2012.
• It is the economic engine for the region,
generating $318 to $573 million in annual
revenue and roughly 10,000 jobs.
• Salmon are acutely sensitive to pollution.
• 2 ppb of copper dust in the water can affect their
ability to naturally navigate and spawn.
20. Bristol Bay
• There are stunning king salmon, the
largest run in Alaska, and trophy rainbow
trout along with several other fish species.
• The salmon support an abundance of
bears, whales, seals, eagles and Natives.
• B.B. is home to orcas, beluga whales, wild
moose, caribou, river otters, wolverines,
porcupines, red fox, and mink.
• B.B. is 1 of only 2 populations of
freshwater harbor seals.
22. Hard Rock Mining
• The US BLM wants to open a million
adjacent acres to hard-rock mining in this
pristine watershed.
• The massive investment in infrastructure
that the Pebble Mine would require- roads,
pipelines, a shipping port- will likely lead to
more mining proposals.
• According to the EPA, the hard-rock
mining industry is the single largest source
of toxic waste in the country.
23. Inevitability
• Every large copper/gold mine in the world
has had environmental disasters that have
ruined the waters and wildlife around
them.
• EVERY ONE OF THEM!!!