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Contact President Obama and the EPA today and tell them to protect Bristol Bay, Alaska, home to one of the largest wild salmon fisheries on the planet. If built, Pebble Mine would produce up to 10 billion tons of toxic waste that will have to be treated for hundreds of years. This waste will threaten Bristol Bay's $600 million commercial and sport fishery and 12,000 fishing jobs.

The future of Bristol Bay, an area the size of Ohio where a visitor is more likely to see a caribou or bear than another person, is in the hands of President Obama and the EPA. That is why Trout Unlimited is working with Alaska Natives, recreational and commercial fishermen, hunting and angling organizations, outdoor retailers, chefs, jewelers, and many others to protect Bristol Bay's salmon fishery and stop Pebble Mine.

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Ms. Nancy Sutley, Council on Environmental Quality

Ms. Lisa Jackson, Environmental Protection Agency

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I am writing today to ask you to protect Bristol Bay, Alaska from the Pebble mine.  Please use your influence to ensure that the EPA uses its authority under the Clean Water Act to stop this ill-conceived project immediately.  Pebble will damage the world-class fishery in Bristol Bay and that is why the commercial fishermen and Alaska Natives who depend on it, and the local businesses that make their living off of this wild landscape in Southwestern Alaska oppose it.

At first glance, Pebble Mine might appear to be a classic jobs vs. the environment issue.  The reality is that the Pebble Mine would create between 1000-2000 jobs while endangering 12,000 commercial and recreational fishery-related jobs in the $600 million annual salmon fishery.  And the mining jobs would disappear once the minerals are extracted.  In contrast, the jobs supported by salmon will continue long past the closure of the mine, as long as we take care of the habitat.  In Bristol Bay, protecting the environment protects jobs.

I urge you to initiate a Clean Water Act 404(c) process in Bristol Bay immediately. Alaska Natives, sportsmen, commercial fishermen, churches, and conservation organizations deserve a public and science-based process to determine if the Pebble Partnership's plans to build the biggest open pit mine in North America will harm one of our nation's greatest fisheries.

This is the wrong mine in the wrong place, and this administration should work to stop it before more time and resources are wasted.  Bristol Bay demonstrates that some places should be left free of industrial development because their natural resource values, and the benefits they provide to people, outstrip short-term development values.

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