This woman needs to throw a tennis ball into a stream beside her and I can almost guarantee the tennis ball beats her to Bristol bay, what a reality check! No modern engineering of dams can withstand the seismic pressures of this area and this has been fully admitted. There is nothing reassuring about this ad campaign. NO PEBBLE MINE!
You can't eat money and there are many other places in the world to mine. The idea that the local communities will get billions is a fantasy - this never, never happens. Ask any of the countries in Africa about all of the oil money that the locals get. Hardly any of the money gets to the local people and the foreign companies get the oil and the locals get to cleanup. The same thing will happen with the Pebble Mine, except there will be no more fish or wildlife, just toxic waste.
Guess what? do you like electricity, lights, modern society. it takes copper for modern society to run. I suggest if you oppose this mine you shouldn't use any copper at all, you'd better sell all your gold too, oh yeah and turn your back on the economic system. People need money to live, I didn't make the rules but, The pebble deposit will bring BILLIONS to the local native community
Pebble is 965 feet above sealevel. PLP applied for the water rights usage of 35 billion gallons of clean water per day from salmon spawning streams and other water in the area in 2006. The ore body at pebble has high potential for Acid Mine Drainage and little buffer potential. Pebble is near major Alaska fault lines in a siesmically active area. Pebble is comprised of foreign companies with outside interests and foreign shareholders. PLP should show some respect for our people and leave Alaska.
Put's into perspective how much propaganda and ill thought plans they are willing to pump out there to make some cash in turn for potentially ruining Bristol Bay. Not worth the risk greedy bastards, that's the reality check.
Irrelevant! The fact that the deposit is "far" from Bristol Bay means nothing. The watersheds that will collect and carry the contaminants will run into the bay!
If they poison the watershed with the by products of the mine (which is unfortunately quite probable) it won't matter if it takes 3 days to make it to the ocean. It will be there for years killing all of the fish. Billions of dollars at stake either way. The trade is billions for the Canadian company doing the development versus over a billion a year from thriving fishing & tourism industries and a way of life that has been in place for over 2000 years..
At last some perspective after listening to comments made by people who either do not live there (or in Alaska in some cases) and by people that seem to think that all of Alaska's environmental protection laws will be ignored if a decision is made by Pebble to move forward. It isn't 1899 and this isn't Utah (or Idaho, or Africa, or etc.)
@MES1941 - You mean the same environmental protection laws that prevented the Exxon Valdez, uncountable numbers of oil spills in the arctic and recent pollution at Red Dog mine?
They must think we're all brainless simpletons. Either that, or they're the simpleminded ones. Okay follow along boys and girls. WATER FLOWS DOWN HILL AND WILL CARRY POLLUTION WITH IT.
Funny -- but when I drive outside Somerset, PA I am hundreds of miles away from the Chesapeake Bay. We don't have a pebble mine and you still know what our watershed has done to that Bay! Say no to the pebble mine! It would have been funny is she would have really hiked that --- chances are she would be Timothy Treadwell part deux!
This is a great commercial and clearly demonstrates the faulty portrayal of the Pebble Project by the anti-development groups that have the sole intent of *shutting Alaska down for Business.*
Let Pebble go through the permitting process before it is pre-judged!
How sad and narrow minded to think that just because the mine is far from the bay, we shouldn't be bothered by the threat it poses to one of the worlds greatest fisheries. Most americans live thousands of miles from the site of the mine but if it is built we all face the real possibility of never seeing this phenomenal ecosystem intact again. I support responsible mining but Pebble is the worst idea for Alaska and the rest of the U.S.
How misleading! Perspective? I'll give you perspective. The pebble mine is zero miles from tributaries of the Kvichak river which flows into Bristol Bay. Where do the Bristol Bay salmon spawn? In those tributaries. It's not that pebble mine is close to the headwaters, its ON THEM! Right smack on top of it. I've lived there. I used to commute to work every day over the top of pebble mine. I'm gonna call out the partnership on this one. It's a load of bull and intentionally misleading.
It sounds like most of you here haven't been paying attention to the propaganda spewed by Pebble opponents. Many Alaskans not from Bristol Bay think that Pebble is right by the bay. If this young lady is truly standing "at the heart of Pebble" it certainly doesn't appear to be anything like what's being described by anti ads. If you're to believe those, the world's largest hole is already there. Ths does lend some "perspective", at least in my view.
Here's a reality check. Look up the definition for watershed, tell your PR company and remake the video. 30 seconds isn't very long yet you totally missed the point. Fail Anglo American. NO TO PEBBLE MINE.
Uhh... did somebody think Pebble was going to be built in the Bay? WTF? Of course the project is far from the ocean... it's still going to ruin the rivers. Just gives it more miles of stream to destroy. Pebble partnership FAIL. Idiots.
The waters of Bristol Bay reach as far as she is. It is called a watershed idiots. Could it occur that water from pebble flows to the bay and the entire rest of the catchment below pebble?
Water flows downhill. Salmon swim upriver. What does walking have to do with anything? Everyone but the Pebble Partnership knows this. Or do they? They believe that misleading the public will help them secure their permitting. Lets give them a reality check!
30 seconds of shit that smells worse than the one I just dropped!! Not only do they want to destroy more land they also take us all for morons!!!! I can't wait to see prt2
If this is the kind of logic used by the Pebble Partnership there is NO WAY people should accept any of their propoganda or "research." This is ridiculous.
!. Water can flow faster than this woman can walk on on even terrain.
2. That means if pollution were to be introduced from pebble mine. ( the most likely senario if pebble mine is allowed to happen) it will contaminate 120 miles of river and then pollute Bristol Bay.
3. Do we want to jeopardize the largest salmon fishery in the world?
wow... did any working for the partnership think that all water flows downhill... Meaning that anything that ends up in the water is going to end up in the bay... WOW... Look at the disasters of the Clark Fork River Mines in Butte and Anaconda MT. The still get fish kills down stream to near Missoula. About the same distance.
How long would it take her to climb out of the 2 mile wide 2000 ft deep hole you plan on digging? Would that take more or less time than climbing up the 4.3 mile long 740 feet high earthen dam (one of three) you'll need to build to hold back the giant tailing pond(s).
you would have to be a complete fool to think that 100 miles matters when you are talking about piling up millions of tons of toxic fill at the head of a watershed.
Wow, this is such a propaganda check...... Using a minority woman, and granola overtones. Go ooooo marketing team! Laughable.
leadoverdistance 1 month ago
This woman needs to throw a tennis ball into a stream beside her and I can almost guarantee the tennis ball beats her to Bristol bay, what a reality check! No modern engineering of dams can withstand the seismic pressures of this area and this has been fully admitted. There is nothing reassuring about this ad campaign. NO PEBBLE MINE!
toyosupra16 7 months ago
You can't eat money and there are many other places in the world to mine. The idea that the local communities will get billions is a fantasy - this never, never happens. Ask any of the countries in Africa about all of the oil money that the locals get. Hardly any of the money gets to the local people and the foreign companies get the oil and the locals get to cleanup. The same thing will happen with the Pebble Mine, except there will be no more fish or wildlife, just toxic waste.
enzyme12345 10 months ago
Guess what? do you like electricity, lights, modern society. it takes copper for modern society to run. I suggest if you oppose this mine you shouldn't use any copper at all, you'd better sell all your gold too, oh yeah and turn your back on the economic system. People need money to live, I didn't make the rules but, The pebble deposit will bring BILLIONS to the local native community
OPPOSE HAARP NOT PEBBLE
JessePinkmanYo 10 months ago
Pebble is 965 feet above sealevel. PLP applied for the water rights usage of 35 billion gallons of clean water per day from salmon spawning streams and other water in the area in 2006. The ore body at pebble has high potential for Acid Mine Drainage and little buffer potential. Pebble is near major Alaska fault lines in a siesmically active area. Pebble is comprised of foreign companies with outside interests and foreign shareholders. PLP should show some respect for our people and leave Alaska.
petlahbnoden 1 year ago
Put's into perspective how much propaganda and ill thought plans they are willing to pump out there to make some cash in turn for potentially ruining Bristol Bay. Not worth the risk greedy bastards, that's the reality check.
deschutesoutfitters 1 year ago
Irrelevant! The fact that the deposit is "far" from Bristol Bay means nothing. The watersheds that will collect and carry the contaminants will run into the bay!
Futility7 1 year ago
Get the point, no one likes your project! Stay out of Alaska and stop with the stupid ads that lie about how no damage will come from it.
djskier101 1 year ago
Get the point, no one likes your project! Stay out of Alaska and stop with the stupid ads that lie about how no damage will come from it.
djskier101 1 year ago
If they poison the watershed with the by products of the mine (which is unfortunately quite probable) it won't matter if it takes 3 days to make it to the ocean. It will be there for years killing all of the fish. Billions of dollars at stake either way. The trade is billions for the Canadian company doing the development versus over a billion a year from thriving fishing & tourism industries and a way of life that has been in place for over 2000 years..
RunWildAlaska 1 year ago
Do they think we are stupid?
samr2411 1 year ago
At last some perspective after listening to comments made by people who either do not live there (or in Alaska in some cases) and by people that seem to think that all of Alaska's environmental protection laws will be ignored if a decision is made by Pebble to move forward. It isn't 1899 and this isn't Utah (or Idaho, or Africa, or etc.)
MES1941 1 year ago
@MES1941 - You mean the same environmental protection laws that prevented the Exxon Valdez, uncountable numbers of oil spills in the arctic and recent pollution at Red Dog mine?
RunWildAlaska 1 year ago
Largest open pit mine in the united states I know how Utah's looks. No way never!
DDS911 1 year ago
They must think we're all brainless simpletons. Either that, or they're the simpleminded ones. Okay follow along boys and girls. WATER FLOWS DOWN HILL AND WILL CARRY POLLUTION WITH IT.
Kerfwappie 1 year ago
Misleading propaganda by the Pebble Partnership, "what a reality check". How ironic.
giustro 1 year ago
Bristol Bay is DOWNSTREAM of Pebble...enough said! And if you can walk there, it's not very far...
fishwithjd 1 year ago
Even my 5th graders could see the bull in this video. Were thinking of shooting our own rebuttal.
jimii3 1 year ago
Funny -- but when I drive outside Somerset, PA I am hundreds of miles away from the Chesapeake Bay. We don't have a pebble mine and you still know what our watershed has done to that Bay! Say no to the pebble mine! It would have been funny is she would have really hiked that --- chances are she would be Timothy Treadwell part deux!
KodiakJac311 1 year ago
This is a great commercial and clearly demonstrates the faulty portrayal of the Pebble Project by the anti-development groups that have the sole intent of *shutting Alaska down for Business.*
Let Pebble go through the permitting process before it is pre-judged!
MAP9719 1 year ago
Would have been a much easier trip in a kayak. You could float the entire way!
YardSale148 1 year ago
The Pebble Partnership should be ashamed of themselves for putting this together.
lukejboyd 1 year ago
How sad and narrow minded to think that just because the mine is far from the bay, we shouldn't be bothered by the threat it poses to one of the worlds greatest fisheries. Most americans live thousands of miles from the site of the mine but if it is built we all face the real possibility of never seeing this phenomenal ecosystem intact again. I support responsible mining but Pebble is the worst idea for Alaska and the rest of the U.S.
utahflyfish 1 year ago
How misleading! Perspective? I'll give you perspective. The pebble mine is zero miles from tributaries of the Kvichak river which flows into Bristol Bay. Where do the Bristol Bay salmon spawn? In those tributaries. It's not that pebble mine is close to the headwaters, its ON THEM! Right smack on top of it. I've lived there. I used to commute to work every day over the top of pebble mine. I'm gonna call out the partnership on this one. It's a load of bull and intentionally misleading.
qdowling 1 year ago
You're right, the toxic runoff will probably get tired before it reaches the bay. Gravity, Schmavity!
bonelessish 1 year ago
It sounds like most of you here haven't been paying attention to the propaganda spewed by Pebble opponents. Many Alaskans not from Bristol Bay think that Pebble is right by the bay. If this young lady is truly standing "at the heart of Pebble" it certainly doesn't appear to be anything like what's being described by anti ads. If you're to believe those, the world's largest hole is already there. Ths does lend some "perspective", at least in my view.
AKfaithful 1 year ago
Here's a reality check. Look up the definition for watershed, tell your PR company and remake the video. 30 seconds isn't very long yet you totally missed the point. Fail Anglo American. NO TO PEBBLE MINE.
Alaskaphotog 1 year ago
What a crock!
sundog1991 1 year ago
What is the point? They get to ruin 58 miles of stream before they wreck the bay?
bigjamesjay 1 year ago
Uhh... did somebody think Pebble was going to be built in the Bay? WTF? Of course the project is far from the ocean... it's still going to ruin the rivers. Just gives it more miles of stream to destroy. Pebble partnership FAIL. Idiots.
jamesbfishin 1 year ago
Wow, I'm sold. Puck Febble.
cbj0728 1 year ago
..."what a reality check". Yes, much more critical habitat to be destroyed than any of us realized. NO PEBBLE MINE!!!!!
twotrouts 1 year ago
The waters of Bristol Bay reach as far as she is. It is called a watershed idiots. Could it occur that water from pebble flows to the bay and the entire rest of the catchment below pebble?
lanouetteb 1 year ago
OPEN PIT MINING RUINS WATER SHEDS.
shibby22182 1 year ago
3 days in, 58 miles later.....is that even out of the pit yet? Fuck you pebble partnership.
870in410 1 year ago
Unreal. What complete bull.
Mancubsies 1 year ago
I hope you conserve that water your drinking, because if you get your way, it will be a real comodity!
flydad1000 1 year ago
Water flows downhill. Salmon swim upriver. What does walking have to do with anything? Everyone but the Pebble Partnership knows this. Or do they? They believe that misleading the public will help them secure their permitting. Lets give them a reality check!
Mysticfishing 1 year ago
30 seconds of shit that smells worse than the one I just dropped!! Not only do they want to destroy more land they also take us all for morons!!!! I can't wait to see prt2
bill7920 1 year ago
What a crock
caihlen 1 year ago
I've personally spent time in Alaska's backcountry. BY NO MEANS IS PEBBLE OK!
Fishigan21 1 year ago
If this is the kind of logic used by the Pebble Partnership there is NO WAY people should accept any of their propoganda or "research." This is ridiculous.
ckalnik 1 year ago
!. Water can flow faster than this woman can walk on on even terrain.
2. That means if pollution were to be introduced from pebble mine. ( the most likely senario if pebble mine is allowed to happen) it will contaminate 120 miles of river and then pollute Bristol Bay.
3. Do we want to jeopardize the largest salmon fishery in the world?
jrlejeune 1 year ago
wow... did any working for the partnership think that all water flows downhill... Meaning that anything that ends up in the water is going to end up in the bay... WOW... Look at the disasters of the Clark Fork River Mines in Butte and Anaconda MT. The still get fish kills down stream to near Missoula. About the same distance.
gigharborflyfisher 1 year ago
The Nushagak and Kvichak flow faster than you Walk. They also flow DOWNHILL from the Pebble Project to Bristol Bay.
Don't buy this BS!
NO PEBBLE MINE
FLyingGuide86 1 year ago
How long would it take her to climb out of the 2 mile wide 2000 ft deep hole you plan on digging? Would that take more or less time than climbing up the 4.3 mile long 740 feet high earthen dam (one of three) you'll need to build to hold back the giant tailing pond(s).
Baitchucker 1 year ago
You forgot to tell the viewers how far it is to the nearest river. Do you think Alaskans are idiots?
akfishingexpeditions 1 year ago
you would have to be a complete fool to think that 100 miles matters when you are talking about piling up millions of tons of toxic fill at the head of a watershed.
AKAAKandrew 1 year ago