May 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
PALMER PROJECT’S HEAVY METALS THREATEN THE CHILKAT RIVER IN SOUTHEAST ALASKAACWA leads the effort to stop Constantine Metal Resources the DOWA Metals and Minerals Corporation from polluting the waters that flow through Alaska’s Chilkat Bald Eagle...
Apr 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
Alaska’s Antidegradation Policy (or lack thereof…)STATE REFUSES TO FULFILL CLEAN WATER ACT MANDATEA twenty-year battle to force Alaska to follow a fundamental requirement of the Clean Water Act may finally be at hand…The federal Clean Water Act...
Mar 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
THE “DILUTION SOLUTION TO POLLUTION” REMAINS THE GREATEST CHALLENGE TO THE GOALS OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT The Clean Water Act (CWA, the Act) was passed in 1972 to restructure the nation’s oversight regarding the release of pollutants into public...
Jun 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
By Stephen Hume, Vancouver Sun, 1/18/2017http://www.vancouversun.com/business/stephen+hume+alaskans+gear+fight+company+mine+plans/12730102/story.html Mt. Washington Copper, which operated in Vancouver Island’s Comox Valley from 1964 to 1967, was abandoned along with...
Jun 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
By Gershon Cohen PhD, ACWA Project DirectorPublished in the Earth Island Journal, Summer Edition, 2016http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/mining_and_salmon_dont_mix/When folks share their “animal migration bucket list,” a few world-class events...
May 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
By Charles Mandel in News, Politics | March 30th 2016Awestruck by the glacier-streaked mountains jutting from the ground and the powerful flowing Chilkat River slicing through the deep valley, Joe Ordonez moved to Haines, Alaska in 1987. Now,...
