Chuitna Coal Action Alert
Updated Action Alert: September 15, 2010
ACTION ALERT
Governor Parnell denied the Unsuitable Lands Petition that would have made it illegal to mine through 11 miles of productive salmon streams at the proposed Chuitna mine site.
This is disturbing because :
1) the Governor went back on his promise not to trade one resource for another;
2) the Governor is choosing corporations and China over his own constitutes and state and;
3) what stream is next!?
Click here to send Governor Parnell your thoughts on his denial of the Unsuitable Lands Petition.
Background: Delaware based PacRim Coal is seeking to strip over 5000 acres of the Chuitna Watershed to ship coal to China and other Asian power plants. The Chuitna Coal Project will be the first project permitted to permanently remove 11 miles of healthy salmon spawning and rearing habitat. According to fisheries biologist and restoration experts, this level of impact will deem reclamation functionally impossible. Middle Creek, a tributary to the Chuit River (recognized as important to salmon by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game) will be destroyed.
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Despite the economic importance of salmon to the Alaska economy there is no law that prohibits mining through a salmon stream;
Write a Letter to the Editor
in the Anchorage Daily News: letters@adn.com (175 word limit)
For more information go to:
http://www.inletkeeper.org/energy/chuitnaCoalProject.htm
