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!
Friends of the Earth is proud to fight alongside our environmental, fishing, and Indigenous allies at every stage to ensure that Pebble Mine remains a distant memory
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has cleared the way for the Pebble Mine project to move forward after releasing a rushed and inadequate Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) on the proposed mine today.
Trump is expected to sign an executive order today waiving long-standing environmental protection mandates, allowing federal agencies to rush through approval for pipelines, mines, and other destructive, polluting projects.
A years-long battle over a proposed mine in Alaska ended when a coalition that included Friends of the Earth successfully pushed the US Army Corps of Engineers to deny Pebble Mine a permit to operate in Bristol Bay, killing the project!
This victory wouldn’t have been possible without the tireless advocacy of Friends of the Earth and our allies in Bristol Bay and beyond.
Pebble Mine is a clear environmental disaster—yet its parent company found a financier for the project in First Quantum Minerals. To stop this project, Friends of the Earth has worked to hit them where it hurts: their financial backing.