New York Times: Palin and Pebble

Posted by Elizabeth Bluemink

Posted: October 22, 2008 - 9:45 am

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Here's a snippet from today's story in New York Times about Palin and other state officials' track record so far in handling the Pebble controversy.

Here's the opening lines:

Two years ago, Sarah Palin landed near this tiny native village and spoke of her love for the vast and starkly beautiful delta that drains into Bristol Bay.

“I am a commercial fisherman; my daughter’s name is Bristol,” said Ms. Palin, then a candidate for governor. “I could not support a project that risks one resource that we know is a given, and that is the world’s richest spawning grounds, over another resource.”

Many here took her words to heart. But as governor, Ms. Palin has helped ease the way for a proposed copper and gold mine of near-mythic proportions at the headwaters of Bristol Bay, the world’s greatest spawning ground for wild salmon.

The article basically contends that because of Palin's pro-mining stance, her political appointments, etc., that she has made it more likely that Pebble will be built.

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