Iliamna NewsLocal news for Iliamna, AK continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.Alaska Natives tested by plan for mine Protecting salmon is an issue - but so is firm's largesse- December 31, 2007 "If we can't show to the satisfaction of the local people that we can protect the fisheries, we will not advance this project" It would involve building the biggest dam in the world at the headwaters of the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery, which it would risk obliterating. via SFGatehttp://www.topix.net/city/iliamna-ak/2007/12/alaska-natives-tested-by-plan-for-mine-protec... Supporters, skeptics rally for clean water- December 10, 2007 "If there's going to be mining in Alaska, let's keep the water clean" Jack Hobson lives as he has for approximately 50 years, off the waters lakes Clark and Iliamna. via Clarion Dispatchhttp://www.topix.net/city/iliamna-ak/2007/12/supporters-skeptics-rally-for-clean-water?fro... Coalition rallies, seeks signatures- December 7, 2007 "We really need to have more than that." Every year the Bristol Bay region lures Clark Whitney to its shores. Beginning at the headwaters of the Nushagak and the Lake Clark and Lake Iliamna drainage, Whitney's hunted, trapped and fished his way to the ... via Clarion Dispatchhttp://www.topix.net/city/iliamna-ak/2007/12/coalition-rallies-seeks-signatures?fromrss=1 |