#Alaska Native Tribes are fighting a giant proposed gold mine near the Kuskokwim River, which would create acid drainage & a lake of permanently contaminated water. We are representing six Tribes and an Alaska nonprofit to challenge it in court
#EarthJustice

https://earthjustice.org/article/donlin-gold-mine-alaska-tribes

@Jezibaba: ~550mn tons of slag for 30mn ounces of gold is not worth that amount of short- and long-term destruction.

@thedisasterautist But gold, amirite?

@Jezibaba: Gold, yes, though I've never heard of amirite? Is that like pyrite? :P