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  • Anchorage, Alaska <br />
Nov. 19, 2017<br />
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“The change that will come with a development of that size will affect all levels of our life.”<br />
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“Well, our river is crystal clear and everybody really prides still being able to drink the water. And we have all five different species of fish that we rely on.”<br />
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“It is our haven. It is our paradise on earth. You just can’t beat it. And we already know that you can’t find it anywhere else in the world.” — AlexAnna Salmon, Igiugig Village Council President
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  • Anchorage, AK<br />
Nov. 10, 2017<br />
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“There are going to be high levels of risk. You’re going to affect water flow, you’re going to affect water temperature, you’re going to affect turbidity — all of those natural occurrences that allow salmon to continue doing what they have so successfully done in Bristol Bay.”<br />
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“This is the equivalent of pushing the Lakota out of the Black Hills to mine for gold. This is the equivalent of pushing the Plains Indians out, killing off all the buffalo.” — Matt Newman, Attorney for the Native American Rights Fund, photographed in his office in Anchorage, Alaska.
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  • Anchorage, Alaska<br />
Nov. 13, 2017<br />
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“The final sentence of Article 1, Paragraph 2 (of the United Nations International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights) states in no case may a people be deprived of their own means of subsistence. On this basis alone, you could put forth some fairly compelling rationale about why they’re concerned about the impact of this extractive industry.” — Dalee Sambo Dorough, Professor of Political Science at UAA
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  • Alaska Peninsula Corporation's "Man Camp" at Kokhanok, Alaska<br />
Aug. 10, 2017 <br />
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Alaska Peninsula Corporation's "Man Camp" in Kokhanok, Alaska (The camp is owned by Talarik Research & Restoration Services LLC, a subsidiary of Alaska Peninsula Corporation.)<br />
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Aug. 10, 2017 “It means a lot. I get to stay home close to family and I don’t have to deal with traffic in Anchorage.” — Nicholas Mike, resident of Kokhanok and a local employee of the Kokhanok “man camp”
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  • Anchorage, Alaska<br />
Aug. 21, 2017<br />
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“Bristol Bay is the last place on earth that salmon thrive. We should care about that as a society.”<br />
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“We can talk about the economics of the commercial fishery and the sport fishery all day. But when it comes down to it, this is an indigenous rights issue that all people should be concerned about.”<br />
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“We’ll do whatever it takes. Whether it’s in the courtroom, whether it’s laying in front of bulldozers. Our people will do whatever it takes to protect this place.” — Alannah Hurley, Executive Director of the United Tribes of Bristol Bay
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  • Anchorage, Alaska<br />
Nov. 1, 2017<br />
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“The community was adamant that they didn’t want the risk of cyanide in Bristol Bay, so we’re not going to do it.”<br />
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“This issue of process of whether or not you get to file an application before EPA kills you is not an issue of science, it’s an issue of process.”<br />
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“I think people need to listen to where we’re headed now and what our plan is and what we are going to take into permitting, because it is dramatically different from anything that has been spoken about with respect to Pebble in the past.” — Tom Collier, CEO of the Pebble Partnership
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  • Anchorage, Alaska<br />
Nov. 9, 2017<br />
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“Looking at some of the EPA scenarios, which is what we’ve been using to compare it to, it’s roughly about half of what had been talked about before. This would be a 20-year mine life for the project.” — Mike Heatwole, Vice President of Public Affairs at Pebble Partnership
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