January 16, 2013 - NO PEBBLE MINE #18, Pictures from Ground Zero:
The habitat of southwest Alaska supports the most productive salmon fishery in the world, but there is also arctic char, dolly varden, and huge rainbow trout in abundance, not to mention all the other animals, birds, and epic American parkland. President Obama has my books to ensure that he and his family can SEE what is at stake. Contact him now, tell him to support the EPA and direct them to say NO TO THE PEBBLE MINE.
January 16, 2013 - NO PEBBLE MINE #18, Pictures from Ground Zero:
The habitat of southwest Alaska supports the most productive salmon fishery in the world, but there is also arctic char, dolly varden, and huge rainbow trout in abundance, not to mention all the other animals, birds, and epic American parkland. President Obama has my books to ensure that he and his family can SEE what is at stake. Contact him now, tell him to support the EPA and direct them to say NO TO THE PEBBLE MINE.
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January 9, 2013 - NO
PEBBLE MINE #17, Pictures from Ground Zero:
Southwest Alaska is one of the cleanest and most diverse freshwater habitats left in
North America. As clean water resources elsewhere are ruined by industrial
consumption, fracking, and bad mining practice, perhaps we should prevent the
PEBBLE MINE from "accidentally" impairing this huge clean water
system. It is not JUST the fish, PURE water will be gold in the near future.
Photograph © 2013 Robert GlennKetchum #LittleBearProd
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January 2, 2013 - NO PEBBLE MINE #16, Pictures
from Ground Zero:
The state
parks, national parks and wildlife refuges of southwest Alaska are the essence
of wild land. These habitats are also the headwaters of the Bristol Bay. salmon
fisheries and the most diverse freshwater ecosystem in North America. Parks and
fish are renewable resource job providers. THERE IS NO PLACE IN THIS
ENVIRONMENT FOR THE TOXIC BYPRODUCTS THAT WILL BE INTRODUCED BY THE PEBBLE MINE
COMPLEX.
Photograph © 2013 Robert GlennKetchum #LittleBearProd
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December 26, 2012 - NO PEBBLE MINE #15,
Pictures from Ground Zero:
Bristol
Bay, the most productive commercial salmon fishery in the history of the world
is not the only renewable resource at risk if the Pebble Mine is developed.
This industrial mega-development will impact, 2 national parks, 3 national
wildlife refuges, and 4 state-designated sanctuaries - home not just to fish,
but bear, moose, caribou, wolf, walrus, marten, fox, eagle and 1000's of
migratory birds.
Photograph © 2012 Robert GlennKetchum #LittleBearProd
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December 19, 2012 - NO PEBBLE MINE #14,
Pictures from Ground Zero:
SW Alaska
and the Alaska Range host many volcanoes and are adjacent one of the most
significant seismic zones in North America. The Pebble mine plans to store
cyanide-toxic mine slurry in 20-SQUARE-MILES of plastic lined, lake-like pits
supposedly contained IN PERPETUITY by a series of earthen dams larger than
Three Gorges in China. HELLO !?!?!
Photograph © 2012 Robert GlennKetchum #LittleBearProd
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December 12, 2012 - NO PEBBLE MINE #13,
Pictures from Ground Zero:
The
Pebble Mine ore deposit is apparently part of an ancient volcano. Lava flows
and volcanic debris have built much of the SW landscape. BENEATH THE POROUS
STONE SURFACE, THE WATERS FLOW - sometimes literally THROUGH the rock layers.
Many Rivers and watersheds are "connected" in this way. Containing
any spills from the 20-SQUARE-miles of cyanide slurry lagoons created by the
Pebble Mine would be virtually impossible.
Photograph © 2012 Robert GlennKetchum #LittleBearProd
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December 5, 2012 - NO PEBBLE MINE #12, Pictures
from Ground Zero:
This is Iliamna Lake, one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world and
home to a unique species of freshwater seal found nowhere else. Iliamna is also
the headwater of the massive Kvichak river, the most productive commercial
salmon river in all of Southwest AK. ASTOUNDINGLY, THE NEARBY PEBBLE MINE WILL
PRODUCE 3,000lbs OF TOXIC TAILINGS FOR EVERY MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD LIVING ON
THE PLANET TODAY, and to neutralize these acid producing tailings, the mine
developers have suggested dumping the them in the lake.
Photograph © 2012 Robert GlennKetchum #LittleBearProd
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November 28, 2012 - NO PEBBLE MINE #11,
Pictures from Ground Zero:
Oil still
oozes from shoreline sand in Prince William Sound. Oil and other toxins
saturate the Gulf Coast. Cyanide and acidic iron oxides should NEVER BE
INTRODUCED into the Bristol Bay environment. Say NO TO THE PEBBLE MINE and keep
the greatest wild salmon fishery in the world (also herring, halibut, etc.) a
clean American food and job resource. Don't allow southwest Alaska to be
trashed by international industrial development.
Photograph © 2012 Robert GlennKetchum #LittleBearProd
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November 21, 2012 - NO PEBBLE MINE #10,
Pictures from Ground Zero:
If
constructed The Pebble will be the largest open-pit mine ever built, but beyond
the mine site a "haul" road system must also be carved through the
10-17,000 ft Alaska Range to reach a port in Cook Inlet (also to be built as
part of the complex). GOOD LUCK KEEPING SUCH A ROAD OPEN IN THE WINTER! Will
American taxpayers be deluded into subsidizing this road as they were for all
the timber extraction roads in the Tongass rainforest?
Photograph © 2012 Robert GlennKetchum #LittleBearProd
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November 14, 2012 - NO
PEBBLE MINE #9, Pictures from Ground Zero:
The EPA
has determined the Pebble Mine will damage salmon rivers, destroy salmon
habitat, and is a threat to the Bristol Bay fishery... THANK YOU!!!! This IS
Ground Zero and you can see why a toxic (cyanide) mine leaking / draining water
downstream affects everything - follow the water in this picture (clue: it is
where the life is).
Photograph © 2012 Robert GlennKetchum #LittleBearProd
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November 7, 2012 - NO PEBBLE MINE #8, Pictures
from Ground Zero:
Photograph © 2012 Robert GlennKetchum #LittleBearProd
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October 31, 2012 - NO PEBBLE MINE #7, Pictures from
Ground Zero:
This is Twin Lakes in
Lake Clark National Park. Beyond the distant mountains to the right, the
proposed Pebble mine complex would be belching industrial auto smog, AND a
mercury laden haze from coal-fired power generation. Their 20-SQUARE-MILE
cyanide slurry lagoon would seem ocean-like from shore-to-shore. How can foreign
corporations be allowed do this to American resources?
Photograph © 2012 Robert GlennKetchum #LittleBearProd
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October 24, 2012 - NO PEBBLE MINE #6, Pictures from
Ground Zero:
Besides a massive
complex of roads that will define the Pebble mine extraction site, a long
"haul" road must be built to get minerals out. The haul road will
bridge the New Halen River coming out of Lake Clark National Park; it will run
adjacent the shoreline of Lake Iliamna for miles bridging / disrupting dozens of
salmon streams and possibly the unique species of freshwater seal that lives in
the lake.
Photograph © 2012 Robert GlennKetchum #LittleBearProd
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October 18, 2012 - NO PEBBLE MINE #5, Pictures from
Ground Zero:
SW Alaska/Bristol Bay is a world
of water... water everywhere, and right at the surface. The fishery thrives in
this world. The Pebble mine, proposed as the largest copper/cyanide gold-leach
mine ever constructed, has NO PLACE HERE! Keep American fisheries clean - say
NO to The Pebble mine!
Photograph © 2012 Robert GlennKetchum #LittleBearProd
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October 10, 2012 - NO PEBBLE MINE #4, Pictures from
Ground Zero:
The
Pebble mine will use more electricity on a daily basis than Anchorage, the
largest city in Alaska. The Pebble intends to generate power from burning coal
mined on-site. Coupled with the industrial vehicle smog the mine will generate,
you can kiss the air quality of Lake Iliamna, Lake Clark National Park, and
Katmai National Park goodbye... and good luck keeping the mercury particulate
from coal burning out of the fishery! The Pebble mine threatens American jobs
and clean food resources say NO!
Photograph © 2012 Robert GlennKetchum #LittleBearProd
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October 3, 2013 - NO
PEBBLE MINE #3, Pictures from Ground Zero:
The New Halen river
flows between Lake Clark and Lake Iliamna, and offers some of the least tried
Class 6 whitewater in North America. It will also have a bridge over it and a
haul road next to it if the Pebble mine is constructed.
Photograph © 2012
Robert Glenn Ketchum #LittleBearProd
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September 26, 2012 -
NO PEBBLE MINE #2, Pictures from Ground Zero:
Upper Talarik Creek,
a world class fly-fishing destination. Recreational fishing/tourism generates
$millions of annual revenue and American employment IN PERPETUITY if well
managed. The Pebble mine's life will be short but it will generate millions of
gallons of toxic, cyanide-leach solution which will have to be stored IN
PERPETUITY to protect these waters and the connected American fishery.
Photograph © 2012
Robert Glenn Ketchum #LittleBearProd
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September 24, 2012
- NO PEBBLE MINE #1, Pictures from Ground Zero:
Today I am starting
something new which I hope you will continue to follow, like and share so more
will know about this: PEBBLE MINE - pictures from Ground Zero: This
is Lake Clark National Park which will SHARE A BORDER with the Pebble mine.
Should these kinds of American natural resources be squandered in the pursuit
of fashionable jewelry?
Photograph © 2012
Robert Glenn Ketchum #LittleBearProd
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