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Here are the basic facts about the Chuitna coal strip mine. Introduction: PacRim Coal, a Delaware corporation funded by Texas investors, is working to develop Alaska’s largest coal strip mine 45 miles west of Anchorage. If fully developed, this project will: If fully developed PacRim’s plan will strip over 32 square miles of the Chuitna [...]

By Jim Reardon Some folks from Texas want to strip-mine the Chuitna River watershed on the west side of Cook Inlet so they can send coal to China.  To get to the coal, they want to destroy 11 miles of Middle Creek, a beautiful stream that is home to several species of wild Alaskan salmon. [...]

Panel Discussion and Reception Please join the Chuitna Citizens Coalition and Cook Inletkeeper for an informative panel discussion and reception with Dr. Margaret Palmer, Lance Trasky and Dr. David Chambers about PacRim Coal’s precedent-setting proposal to mine though 11 miles of wild Alaska salmon stream to export coal to China. Alaska has never allowed a salmon [...]

State Refuses to Protect Waters Needed to Support Salmon ANCHORAGE, AK – Foot-dragging by the Parnell Administration has forced Alaskan citizen groups to challenge the State’s refusal to protect the waters that support wild Alaskan salmon. The groups, the Chuitna Citizens Coalition and Cook Inletkeeper, filed suit recently in state court to press the Parnell [...]