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Tell Governor Sean Parnell, Overturn the Unsuitable Lands Petition decision. We need your help to stop a dangerous precedent: PacRim Coal wants to destroy over 11 miles of salmon stream in Cook Inlet to ship coal to China. This would be the first time in state history a mining company would be permitted to destroy [...]

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 [...]

Chuitna Citizens Coalition member, Rob Freeman has put together this informative video about why the Chuitna River is no place for a coal strip mine.

Recently the Chuitna Citizens sent a letter to Governor Parnell asking for a decision on the pending reconsideration of the Lands Unsuitable Petition in light of ADF&G’s Best Interest Finding for the proposed Canyon Creek coal lease sale which recommends 100-foot setbacks on salmon streams, a recommendation which DNR has accepted, begging the question: if [...]

Sign the petition to protect wild Alaskan salmon habitat here. Each summer wild salmon provide good jobs, strong paychecks and feed Alaskan families. We all need salmon and salmon need habitat.  Throughout history we can see how salmon populations have succumbed to  a “death by a thousand cuts.” It’s not one big event that destroys salmon [...]

On March 2nd, 2012 three expert witnesses appeared before the Alaska Legislature, Senate Judiciary Committee to testify about PacRim Coal’s plans to destroy 11 miles of Middle Creek, a wild Alaskan salmon stream and a major tributary of the Chuinta River with 25+ years of strip mining to export coal to China. PacRim Coal claims [...]