{"id":613561,"date":"2009-12-24T10:20:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T15:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.reallynatural.com,2009:\/\/2.2441"},"modified":"2009-12-24T10:26:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T15:26:37","slug":"largest-copper-and-gold-mine-would-destroy-bristol-bay-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/613561","title":{"rendered":"Largest Copper and Gold Mine Would Destroy Bristol Bay, Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An international mining group is planning North America’s largest copper and gold mine at headwaters of Bristol Bay, Alaska. Environmentalists are outraged, as this is a “vital ecosystem” for salmon and other species. The National Resource Defense Council<\/a> explains:<\/p>\n

The only way to extract the low-grade ore from the region would be to use a brutal and pollution-prone technique known as hard-rock mining, which includes powerful explosives and massive drilling equipment. At one of the proposed mines in Pebble, a remote, roadless area sandwiched between two national parks, spongy, lake-studded tundra would be scraped away, leaving a yawning two-mile-wide, 2,000-foot-deep pit in its place. This would be the largest open-pit mine in the world — wide enough to line up nine of the world’s longest cruise ships end to end and deep enough to swallow the Empire State Building. At a second mine, explosives would be used to create a series of underground cave-ins to extract ore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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An international mining group is planning North America’s largest copper and gold mine at headwaters of Bristol Bay, Alaska. Environmentalists are outraged, as this is a “vital ecosystem” for salmon and other species. The National Resource Defense Council explains: The only way to extract the low-grade ore from the region would be to use a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2zC9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}