Help the NRDC run this powerful ad against Pebble Mine 19JUN14

THE NRDC has been leading the fight against the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska for years (just click the link to go to their Pebble Mine campaign page). There is still one major international corporation, Canada's northern dynasty minerals, that is still pushing plans and gathering investors for the mine. Please see the blow from the +NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) , check out their Pebble Mine campaign page, and make a donation to keep the struggle active. This battle can be won, public opinion across the nation, including Alaska, opposes this mine, and more politicians are joining the fight. Please donate whatever you can afford....

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We still need $32,000 to run our hard-hitting ad in The Vancouver Sun and other media outlets. Please make an emergency gift to help turn up the heat on Northern Dynasty to quit the destructive Pebble Mine.

Help run our full-page ad in The Vancouver Sun and turn up the heat on Canada’s Northern Dynasty Minerals to abandon its plans for the disastrous Pebble Mine. READ OUR AD We need your help to send Northern Dynasty Minerals -- the last company standing behind the Pebble Mine -- a message loud and clear: It’s time to walk away from Bristol Bay! Read the full text of our powerful new ad. Then please make an emergency donation to help us run it next week in The Vancouver Sun -- in the hometown of Northern Dynasty’s headquarters. We need to raise $85,000 right away to get this ad placed next week and to keep running it in other outlets until Northern Dynasty relents in its outrageous attack on an American paradise. We will reach our goal in just 24 hours if a few thousand supporters like you each make a small donation. Will you help get us there? There are three great reasons to believe that your donation and our ad can make a big difference: We pushed hard to get the Pebble Mine’s biggest corporate backers -- Mitsubishi, Anglo American and Rio Tinto -- to abandon this reckless venture, and they did. But Northern Dynasty has not gotten the message. It is still rushing headlong to build its open-pit, copper-and-gold monstrosity -- in defiance of Bristol Bay’s Native communities and commercial fishermen, who don’t want to see their unspoiled Eden turned into a toxic wasteland. Next week, we can make sure that this Canadian mining company feels the harsh glare of the spotlight in its own backyard. Our hard-hitting, full-page ad will turn up the heat until Northern Dynasty quits this disastrous mega-mine. Your tax-deductible gift will enable us to run our ad in the Sun and other media outlets, galvanize a continent-wide outcry against Northern Dynasty Minerals and defend our environment in the most effective way possible. Don’t let them destroy one of America’s last and greatest wild places. Please donate now and send a powerful message to Northern Dynasty next week: It’s time to quit the Pebble Mine! Sincerely, Frances Beinecke President Natural Resources Defense Council

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Fantastic news to share with you, anglo-american ends involvement in Pebble mine project 17SEP13

OVER the past few years I have posted information about and asked you to sign petitions to various government agencies and elected officials as well as the companies involved in the proposed Pebble mine. Now anglo-american, one of the two companies seeking to open  Pebble mine, has pulled out of the project. To be sure this is a victory, but until northern dynasty minerals gives up their plans for the Pebble mine and no other company tries for approval of the project we will still have to be on our guard. Congrats and thank you to all who participated in this campaign! This update from the NRDC......

Mining Giant Anglo American Pulls Out of the Pebble Mine Project! The British company calls it quits on a disastrous plan that threatens one of America's last and greatest wild places. This is a game changer, but our fight still goes on... The announcement came like a thunderbolt yesterday morning. British mining giant Anglo American -- the lead company behind the potentially catastrophic Pebble Mine -- said that it was throwing in the towel on the project immediately! This is spectacular, game-changing news for our long, hard-fought campaign against a mega-mine that threatens to destroy an American natural treasure: Alaska's beautiful Bristol Bay. Believe me, it takes a lot for a hard-nosed company like Anglo American to change its mind. The corporate giant had reportedly sunk more than $500 million into the Pebble Mine-- a massive gold and copper operation that would produce some 10 billion tons of contaminated waste and threaten the greatest wild salmon runs on the planet. For years the company asked us to believe that it could gouge a vast and toxic open pit out of the Bristol Bay wilderness without turning it into the kind of dead zone that surrounds other major copper mines. Now it wants out. And it is willing to write down losses of $300 million to do it. What changed? Anglo American -- like Mitsubishi before it -- came to its senses and realized that the Pebble Mine is a financial and environmental disaster waiting to happen. Of course it helped mightily that local communities, Native groups and fishermen have opposed the mine courageously and tirelessly ... that NRDC BioGems Defenders like you stood shoulder to shoulder with them by deluging Anglo American with nearly one million messages of protest .. that Robert Redford took our campaign to the national and international stage (he was cited by more than 50 news outlets yesterday!) ... that EPA scientists found the mine posed "catastrophic" risks ... and that more than 600,000 Americans petitioned EPA this year to stop the mine. Just last April, we hand-delivered 200,000 messages from NRDC activists to Anglo American's new CEO, Mark Cutifani, calling on him to break with his predecessors and chart a new course by abandoning plans for the Pebble Mine. Now he has done just that -- by pulling the plug on a terrible investment with astronomical risks. As a direct result, every American who loves and cherishes our natural heritage can breathe a little easier tonight. And every BioGems Defender should feel profound pride in the fight we have waged against a horrific project that, until recently, was considered all but unstoppable. Simply put, I have never been more inspired by our collective power to make a difference. So does Anglo's exit mean the Pebble Mine is dead? No. It may be on life support but there are ways it could be revived in a hurry. Anglo American's partner in the Pebble Mine -- Northern Dynasty Minerals, a Canadian company -- must now go it alone in trying to push through the controversial project. It's unlikely that Northern Dynasty can put the massive mine into production without major funding from another giant partner like Anglo American. And Northern Dynasty has already made it clear that it's actively looking for new funding partners. That means you and I must go all out to make sure that other mining giants are not tempted to make the same bad bet that Mitsubishi and Anglo American made.We must also keep the pressure on Rio Tinto, another global player which now owns nearly a 20 percent stake in Northern Dynasty. Above all, we absolutely must protect Bristol Bay forever -- by making sure the EPA uses its power under the Clean Water Act to ban large-scale mining in an American Eden where both human and wildlife communities depend on the annual miracle of 40 million returning salmon. By now you must realize: NRDC never walks away from a battle until it's truly won. This battle is not over, but it sure feels like the tide is turning! I'm counting on you to stand with us until we reach our final goal: the permanent protection of the awe-inspiring Bristol Bay -- and the certainty it will never be destroyed to enrich a handful of mining corporations. Sincerely, Frances Beinecke President Natural Resources Defense Council