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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 [...]

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 [...]

Forty-one percent of the watershed will be directly impacted from mining and backfilling of the mine. What occurs in these headwaters, wetlands, tundra, and forests is vital to the water quality and the fish downstream.