Pebble Mine

Pebble Mine

Pebble Mine – a proposed metals mine in Southwest Alaska’s Bristol Bay, threatened one of the largest and last remaining wild salmon populations in the world. But we helped stop the project in its tracks.

Bristol Bay provides nearly half of the world’s wild sockeye salmon.  Had the project moved forward, the mine would have generated more than 10 billion tons of dangerous waste, wiped out 90 miles of salmon streams and polluted more than 5,000 acres of wetlands, ponds and lakes.  It would have plummeted the salmon population — catastrophically impacting local communities and earth’s last great wild sockeye salmon fishery. 

That is why Friends of the Earth fought tooth and nail to protect Bristol Bay, Alaska from the disastrous Pebble Mine. Learn more about our victory in stopping Pebble Mine from moving forward.