A mind-boggling Alaska mine

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By JOEL CONNELLY
SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF

KING SALMON, Alaska -- A bumper sticker reading "EARTH FIRST: We'll Mine the Other Planets Later" decorated Rick Halford's office in days when the game guide and pilot was president of the Alaska State Senate.

"I have been a mining advocate all my life," Halford said.

Until, that is, a giant gold-copper-molybdenum mine was proposed between two of Bristol Bay's major salmon spawning streams and just west of Alaska's largest lake. "Iliamna Lake is the largest red salmon rearing area in the world," Halford added.

"I can't imagine a worse location for a mine of this type, unless it were in my kitchen," former Alaska Gov. Jay Hammond, who lived nearby at Lake Clark, said shortly before his death. Widow Bella Hammond is an active mine foe.

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Gotta crap in our kitchen...

[chemenger]

1. Typical NIMBY mentality

Its OK as long as I'm personally inconvenienced by it.

[Arctic Dave]

2. They want to build the Pebble Mine right in the middle of the last

great salmon spawning areas in the world. Not going to happen.