WWF has long worked beside local and Indigenous communities to safeguard the Bristol Bay region, which is home to a wealth of fish and wildlife including the world's greatest wild salmon fishery, generating $2.2 billion annually, supporting 15,000 jobs, providing 57 percent of the world's sockeye salmon, and sustaining Indigenous communities.
But as we've informed the EPA, the Pebble Mine would change all that:
Dear Environmental Protection Agency,
The Pebble Mine Plan will result in unacceptable, unmitigable risks to Bristol Bay watersheds and their fisheries.
Additionally, adverse effects from accidents with mine tailings are likely to persevere "in perpetuity" and cause profound ecological harm for the entire area.
We urge the EPA to act as quickly as possible to prohibit the Pebble Mine and permanently protect Bristol Bay's headwaters from such mining, in order to ensure protection for the watershed and people of Bristol Bay.