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This letter is in response to Wednesday's Coeur Alaska ad featuring surface foreman Jerry Harmon.
Kensington Mine debate is personal 031607 letters 5 JuneauEmpire This letter is in response to Wednesday's Coeur Alaska ad featuring surface foreman Jerry Harmon.

Kensington Mine debate is personal

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This letter is in response to Wednesday's Coeur Alaska ad featuring surface foreman Jerry Harmon.

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Coeur is absolutely right. The Kensington Mine is personal. As one of 660,000 people of Alaska, I can tell you that Coeur's attempts to move forward on the mine are very personal to me. I'm an Alaskan who fishes, hunts and lives in a community I love because the Clean Water Act prevents industry from irresponsibly despoiling waterways and estuaries that support my lifestyle.

Coeur's insistence on moving forward with plans to dump mine waste into clean water directly attacks my lifestyle. Multiply that effect by 300 million Americans to get some idea of the magnitude of this threat.

You see, it's not about a small lake filled with stunted Dolly Varden, but a precedent allowing industries across the nation to dump various waste into our rivers, lakes and marshes. Undoubtedly, Kensington is a "model" project - a model for cutting corners to increase corporate profits when even some environmental groups supported dry-tailings storage.

Coeur, it's time to wake up and see what you're doing to me and thousands of outdoorsmen just like me, not to mention the rest of America. The appeals court will almost certainly overturn the district court based on the plain reading of the Clean Water Act, and all the permits in the world from agencies captured by industry influence will not make the project right. Coeur's attempts to continue with this project are directly affecting me and millions just like me.

Now that's personal.

Bubba Cook

Anchorage



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