there's there is an environmental battle brewing in alaska in the pristine confines of bristol bay i want to the world's largest wild sockeye salmon runs foreign investors are trying to build a one hundred seventy billion dollars copper and gold mine pebble mine as it's called doesn't sound small and cute pebbles is said to be the world's largest and it's going to be built on top of the world's largest pile of underground copper and gold trillium assets and calvert investments want to rip it out from the top down strip money and if it's built astronauts would be able to see it from space a massive two one mile wide several thousand foot deep if they could for toxic waste in the waters and fishing habits of personal pay public outrage is growing into the proposed mine natives of bristol bay and local businesses have petitioned the e.p.a. to do a full review of the effects of the mine on the salmon population and fifty eight companies jewelry companies including tiffany and zales have signed a petition saying they would not buy minerals mine from bristol bay so here we have the world's

public outrage is growing into the proposed mine natives of bristol bay and local businesses have petitioned the e.p.a. to do a full review of the effects of the mine on the salmon population and fifty eight companies jewelry companies including tiffany and zales as signed a petition saying they would not buy minerals mine from bristol bay so here we have the world's largest salmon habitat within the world's largest online source of copper and gold that's going to happen for the view from alaska i'm joined by shana moore host of the shannon moore show and more up north chana welcome back thanks so much for having me tom great to have you here with us i know you've been following this very very closely is corporate greed going to get the world's largest natural salmon spawning area. god over my dead body i'll tell you what there is nothing that i fought harder in this state including sarah palin don't mess mine i think it's the number one threat not only to alaska but to an amazing food source wild protein source the last rate giant run of salmon in you know we also have twelve tho