Conservation News Round Up 7-27-2012
Happy Friday Alaska! The weekend looks like it will be beautiful and sunny. Hopefully you are able to get out and enjoy the weather but as you wrap up your work-week, take a few minutes to catch up on conservation issues that are making headlines across the state:
Opinion piece: Alaska’s New, Lax Pesticide Rules Squash Public Comment
Classic Alaska resource battle brewing over Wood-Tikchik hydropower
Hilcorp is reopening the Drift River Terminal Oil Storage Facility- You might remember an action alert we sent out a few weeks ago on this. The gist being it is a bad idea to have a storage facility at the mouth of an active volcano.
An episode of PBS’s Frontline that examined Pebble Mine aired on Tuesday
BLM plans clean up of one legacy well at NPR-A
Federal review questions Wishbone Hill permit
Coastal management program hearing in Juneau- backers and foes present well honed arguments
