"Red Dog loses battle over discharge permit"

[Arctic Dave]

Natives in two villages have won a battle against the world's largest zinc mine over a permit they said would have polluted an fish stream that provides food and drinking water. The Native villages of Kivalina and Point Hope challenged the Red Dog Mine's new water-pollution-discharge permit. The federal permit would have allowed more cyanide, zinc, selenium, lead and total dissolved solids into the Wulik River than is currently allowed, villagers said.
Enoch Adams Jr., vice president of the Native Village of Kivalina, has called the permit a "license to pollute." It was to become effective March 1.

Teck Alaska did not return calls seeking comment Friday.

The company said in February that if permit delays extended beyond May, production at Red Dog would likely be suspended in October.



Read more: http://www.adn.com/2010/03/26/1200864/mine-loses-battle-over-discharge.html#ixzz0jKqTn1bz

[midnight]

1. This is so welcomed to read..... Common sense and science working together.

[Dead_Parrot]

2. I always thought he was a bit suspect

Bastard.