Dear NRDC Activist,

The investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald is leading the effort to raise potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to fund the Pebble Mine project threatening Alaska's pristine Bristol Bay — and they must be stopped.

To kill this toxic mega-mine and save Bristol Bay, we must shut off the investor money, and Cantor Fitzgerald is the lead underwriter — the fundraiser-in-chief — for the small Canadian company Northern Dynasty Minerals' efforts to fund the project.

Send an urgent message to Cantor Fitzgerald's CEO calling on him to stop raising funds for the disastrous Pebble Mine.

The Pebble Mine is a proposed massive gold and copper mine that would dump billions of tons of mining waste into the rivers, lakes, streams, and wildlands of Bristol Bay, destroying the world-renowned salmon runs that are a lifeline for the Yup'ik, Dena'ina, and Alutiiq Tribes and the $1.5 billion a year commercial fishing industry, and threatening the region's pristine wilderness and abundant wildlife, including brown bears, whales, and majestic bald eagles.

The overwhelming majority of people living in the region oppose the mega-mine coming to their community, including the Tribes that have called this land home for millennia, Native village corporations and associations, business leaders, and commercial fishermen.

Here's what I know: Public pressure works.

So far, four of the largest mining companies in the world have walked away from this reckless project after overwhelming public opposition from Indigenous communities and NRDC activists like you: Mitsubishi Corporation, Anglo American, Rio Tinto, and First Quantum Minerals. And just this spring, Morgan Stanley — a major shareholder in Northern Dynasty Minerals — reported the sale of over 99% of its shareholding in the company.

Now Cantor Fitzgerald must do the same by halting its efforts to raise money for Northern Dynasty Minerals to advance the Pebble Mine project.

This is the moment to act and convince Cantor Fitzgerald to re-think its relationship with Northern Dynasty Minerals and its support for this project. Northern Dynasty's CEO Tom Collier resigned in disgrace this month after he was caught on tape bragging about manipulating elected officials and revealing the company's scheme to expand the project beyond what was described in its application to the Army Corps of Engineers and to the public.

What's more, Cantor Fitzgerald claims it's committed to environmental and social sustainability — yet the company's relationship with Northern Dynasty and the Pebble Mine is directly at odds with those values.

Tell Cantor Fitzgerald to immediately cut ties with the Pebble Mine project — and stand with the people and wildlife of Bristol Bay.

Here at NRDC, we're doing all we can to stop the Trump administration from permitting the Pebble Mine while, at the same time, we are preparing right now to go to court if and when a permit is issued.

We aren't giving up, but we need your help today — tell Cantor Fitzgerald to stop funding the Pebble Mine now.

Thank you for all you continue to do to save Bristol Bay.

Warmly,

Joel Reynolds
Western Director & Senior Attorney, NRDC