Constantine /Dowa claim “responsible resource development,” but what does that really mean? A public relations attempt to anesthetize the public into thinking that their mine will be different somehow. Look at the history of large corporate mines and they tell an entirely different story. The only “responsible” in their “resource development” was that they left the place a toxic graveyard that the federal government had to try in vain to clean up after them. Money flowed, wages for some, but the locals who depended on the land for subsistence took it in the shorts. They now had to buy their farmed salmon from Costco.
A large corporate mine in our valley will have only negative consequences for those of us who live here and share this land. There is no upside for us. We lose. Less wildlife, less fish, less wildness, more industrialization, more stress. Every year the mine footprint digs deeper and deeper into becoming a real thing; ore trucks roaring up and down the valley for years.
Do what you can to tell the Palmer Project that we do not want you in our valley. The words of a friend, “Welcome to paradise, gentlemen, please wipe your feet at the door and leave us alone. We’re doing just fine without you.”
Tom Faverty