In operation since 1989, the Red Dog open pit mine operations is located in Northwest Alaska in the DeLong Mountains of the Brooks Range, 82 miles north of Kotzebue, 55 miles from the Chukchi Sea, and 106 miles above the Arctic Circle. It is situated within the Northwest Arctic Borough. The mine is self-reliant, with power generation, an airport, worker housing and ocean shipping facilities.The Red Dog pit-mine generates air and water pollution in the hundreds of millions of pounds of carcinogens and toxicants (481,578,816 lbs *) annually. They are dumping these into the air and water...and though they may be located hundreds or even thousands of miles away from our general population the pollutants are carried to us and to the rest of the globe through routine circulation of water and air currents.
Red Dog is one example...and they are not acting to clean up their operations...not to the degree needed to make them safe for humankind. Raise the alarm... Don't weaken the EPA by unfunding its budget and thus preventing its ability to hold the line against corporations who view our clean air and water as a needless expense.
(*source data taken from the EPA Toxics Release Inventory Program 2002 data release)
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