My Turn: U.S Forest Service didn't listen to Angoon about Green's Creek Mine 

Several weeks ago the U.S. Forest Service came to Angoon to hold a subsistence hearing on Greens Creek Mine’s proposed tailings expansion, and it’s the first opportunity I’ve had as elected mayor to think seriously about the effects the mine is having on my home. My greatest frustration at that meeting was to find that the Forest Service’s mind was already made up: The Forest Service was not going to reconsider its approval of the tailings expansion, no matter what concerns we expressed,

We were meeting for nothing.