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Earthworks is the only U.S. environmental nonprofit that focuses exclusively on the destructive impacts of resource extraction on communities and the environment, in the United States and around the world.
We work to achieve that goal in different ways, including:
- Our Oil & Gas Accountability Project serves drilling impacted communities around the country.
- Our No Dirty Gold campaign which pressures jewelry retailers (whose demand represents 80% of annual gold mine production) to responsibly source their gold
- Our Bristol Bay campaign to protect the world's largest remaining wild salmon fishery.
One of most valuable assets is our staff -- many of whom have worked with Earthworks on mining and drilling issues for more than a decade -- who provide the kind of expertise available nowhere else.
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Contacts:
Executive Director: Jennifer Krill, 202-887-1872 x103, blog
No Dirty Gold campaign director: Payal Sampat, 202-887-1872 x110, blog
Oil & Gas Accountability Project director: Gwen Lachelt, 970-259-3353 x1, blog
Our Bristol Bay campaign director: Bonnie Gestring, 406-549-7361, blog
Policy Director: Lauren Pagel, 202-887-1872 x107, blog
Photos:
Our photo library contains a geographically arranged collection of images of drilling and mining impacts on communities and the environment.
Videos:
Our growing library of videos includes campaign shorts, interviews with affected communities, and pollution exposes.
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Latest Release
Anglo American’s Pebble Mine Poses High Risks for Investors
Viability of Pebble mine project questioned as legal, political, and engineering challenges mount
WASHINGTON, DC—A new investor advisory released today raises significant questions about the serious risks associated with Anglo American plc’s (LSE: AAL, JSE: ANGLO) Pebble mine project in southwest Alaska. The advisory details the growing list of regulatory, legal, engineering, and political challenges facing the London-based mining giant as it struggles to secure permits for the controversial gold-copper mine planned for the headwaters of Bristol Bay, the world’s biggest wild sockeye salmon fishery.
The Pebble mine project in southwest Alaska is a 50-50 joint venture between London-based Anglo American plc and Canada-based Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. known as the Pebble Limited Partnership. The report points to the dramatic drop in share price over the last year at Northern Dynasty Ltd. - whose only project is the Pebble Mine – as evidence of the lack of confidence in the Pebble project. The company’s share price has dropped by more than half – from $20 a share in February 2011 to less than $10 a share in January 2012.
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