The potential of a major mining project at the headwaters of the Chilkat Valley and an industrial, mega-hydro project in the Chilkoot Valley to power it threaten our sustainable fishery. Mining, industrial development and wild salmon returning to spawn in our rivers downstream of these projects are incompatible. It’s a choice, one or the other.
We are not talking about Hollywood placer mining. The Palmer deposit, which Constantine Resources is exploring, is a massive sulfide…