Please take action today.
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[[link removed]]Dear John,
For the past three years, American Rivers has named Idaho’s South Fork Salmon
River as one of America’s Most Endangered Rivers® due to a proposal by a
Canadian mining company, Midas Gold, to construct a massive open-pit gold and
antimony mine in the river’s headwaters.
The proposed Stibnite Gold project would bury valleys with hundreds of millions
of tons of mining waste, threaten wild salmon and steelhead, and likely would
impair water quality for hundreds of years. Tell the U.S. Forest Service that it must fully analyze environmental impacts
and a full range of alternatives before allowing this destructive project to
move forward!
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The South Fork Salmon River is a national treasure that provides critical
spawning habitat for chinook salmon and steelhead as well as world class
whitewater recreation opportunities and fishing. If allowed to proceed, the
Stibnite Mine not only would harm water quality in the South Fork Salmon River,
but it could also contaminate the Main Salmon River into which it flows – one of
the most sought after permitted multi-day river runs in the country.
Last August, the US Forest Service released its Draft Environmental Impact
Statement (DEIS) for the Stibnite Gold project. The massive proposed cyanide vat
leach mining operation would result in:
* Three massive open pits which together are nearly the size of 400 football
fields
* Reroute creeks into artificial tunnels and ditches
* Establish a 400-acre toxic tailings pond that would fill Upper Meadow Creek
* Adversely impact one of Idaho’s most cherished rivers for centuries
Unfortunately, critical analysis on the environmental impacts of this project is
deeply flawed or missing entirely.
Please take action to protect Idaho’s South Fork Salmon River today. Tell the
Forest Service you expect a thorough and lawful environmental review!
For the Rivers,
[[link removed]] Zack Waterman
Northern Rockies Conservation Director
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