Governor Parnell’s Policies Are Failing Alaskan Salmon

It’s Time to Ask EPA to Stop Coal Strip Mining Through Our Wild Alaska Salmon Streams. Governor Parnell promised Alaskans he would “never trade one resource for another.” But time and again, the Parnell Administration has refused to take basic steps to protect the wild salmon that support our families and local economies. Write to [...]

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Parnell Administration Once Again Rejects Salmon Habitat Protections

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 16, 2013 State also refuses to tell Alaskans when fish streams will be harmed ANCHORAGE, AK – Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) Commissioner Cora Campbell rejected common sense rules to protect wild Alaskan salmon runs, and refused to allow Alaskans to participate in decisions that harm salmon habitat. [...]

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Court Agrees State of Alaska Not Protecting Chuitna Salmon

Pending Legislation Would Further Strip Alaskans’ Rights to Protect Salmon  ANCHORAGE, AK –In a decision issued February 25, 2013, the Alaska Superior Court ruled that the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) violated its own rules by denying Alaskans’ their right to keep water in streams to protect wild salmon runs. The decision in Chuitna Citizens Coalition [...]

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Tell Governor Sean Parnell, Overturn the ULP Decision.

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 [...]

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Location of the proposed Chuitna coal stripmine

Basic Facts

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 [...]

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Mouth of the Chuitna River | Photo By Jeanne Devon

The Chuitna River–No Place for a Coal Strip Mine Video

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.

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Letter to Parnell | November 2012

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 [...]

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Help Protect Wild Salmon Habitat

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 [...]

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Expert Tesimony | Dr. Margaret Palmer

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 [...]

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