Water in the News: Donlin Mine, Salmon Streams, Fukushima
This is Alaska Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Lots of water in the news today. More after this.
Water is the focus of three fish stories in the news.
First, a judge ruled this week that the state Department of Environmental Conservation was wrong to issue a Clean Water Act certificate to Donlin Mine, the world’s largest gold mine planned upstream from villages near the Kuskokwim River. Anna Rose MacArthur at KYUK in Bethel sums up the 78 page decision:
“The state initially issued a certificate of reasonable assurance” to Donlin...
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