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          <title>Imperial Metals’ Financial Downgrade Raises Questions About Liability of Mount Polley, Red Chris Mines</title>
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          <dc:creator>Judith Lavoie</dc:creator>

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          <title>Mining Company Gets Federal Approval to Use B.C. Fish-Bearing Streams to Dump Tailings</title>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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               B.C.               </category>
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               Chris Zimmer               </category>
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               KSM mine               </category>
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               Mount Polley Mine               </category>
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               Rivers Without Borders               </category>
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               Seabridge Gold Inc               </category>
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          <title>Alaskans Find Flaw in B.C. Study Showing Acid Drainage from Abandoned Mine Does Not Affect Fish</title>
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          <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2016 02:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Judith Lavoie</dc:creator>

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          <title>Republican Senators from Alaska Ask John Kerry to Help Protect Rivers, Salmon from B.C.’s Dangerous Mining Practices</title>
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          <pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2016 07:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Judith Lavoie</dc:creator>

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               B.C. mining               </category>
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               Congressman Don Young               </category>
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               Frederick Olsen Jr               </category>
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               Heather Hardcastle               </category>
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               Senator Lisa Murkowski               </category>
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          <title>New B.C. $5.4 Billion Gold and Copper Mine Will Improve Water Quality in River, Says Company</title>
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          <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2015 00:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Judith Lavoie</dc:creator>

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               Brent Murphy               </category>
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               Greg Knox               </category>
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               Guy Archibald               </category>
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               Heather Hardcastle               </category>
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               International Joint Commission               </category>
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               KSM               </category>
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               Skeena Wild Conservation Trust               </category>
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               Southeast Alaska Conservation Council               </category>
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          <title>The Trouble With Tailings: Toxic Waste ‘Time Bombs’ Loom Large Over Alaska’s Salmon Rivers</title>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2015 03:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Judith Lavoie</dc:creator>

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               B.C. First Nationsl Energy and Mining Council               </category>
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               Brucejac               </category>
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               Chief Inspection of Mines               </category>
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               Chris Zimmer               </category>
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               David Haslam               </category>
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               Greens Creek               </category>
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               Heather Hardcastle               </category>
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               Imperial Metals               </category>
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               Independent Tailings Dam Review Boards               </category>
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               International Joint Commission               </category>
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               Irene Dundas               </category>
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               Iskut               </category>
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               Juneau               </category>
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               Karina Brino               </category>
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               Ketchikan Indian Community               </category>
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               KSM               </category>
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               Marcello Veigo               </category>
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               Mining Association of B.C.               </category>
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               Ministry of Energy and Mines               </category>
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               Misty Fjords National MonumentSeabridge Gold               </category>
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               Mount Polley               </category>
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               Red Chris               </category>
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               Rivers Without Borders               </category>
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               Rob Sanderson Jr.               </category>
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               Salmon Beyond Borders               </category>
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               stikine               </category>
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               tailings               </category>
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               tailings dams               </category>
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               transboundary mines               </category>
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               United Tribal Transboundary Mining Work Group               </category>
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          <title>B.C. Minister Bennett’s Visit Fails to Ease Alaskans’ Mining Concerns</title>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2015 23:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
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          <dc:creator>Judith Lavoie</dc:creator>

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               Alaska Trollers Association               </category>
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               Bill Bennett               </category>
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               Boundary Waters Treaty               </category>
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               Byron Mallott               </category>
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               Chris Zimmer               </category>
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               Dale Kelley               </category>
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               fishing               </category>
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               Governor Byron Mallott               </category>
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               Heather Hardcastle               </category>
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               Ministry of Enery and Mines               </category>
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               Mount Polley mine spill               </category>
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               Stikine River               </category>
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               Taku River               </category>
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          <title>&amp;#8216;It’s the New Wild West&amp;#8217;: Alaskans Leery As B.C. Pushes For 10 Mines in Transboundary Salmon Watersheds</title>
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          <dc:creator>Judith Lavoie</dc:creator>

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               Bill Bennett               </category>
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               Brucejack               </category>
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               Chieftain Metals Corp.               </category>
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               Joe Bradley               </category>
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               Kitsault               </category>
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               KSM               </category>
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               Kutch               </category>
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               Lindsey Bloom               </category>
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               Ministry of Energy and Mines               </category>
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               Mount Polley               </category>
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               Pacific Salmon Commission               </category>
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               Red Chris Mine               </category>
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               Seabridge Gold               </category>
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               southeast Alaska               </category>
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               Tongass National Forest               </category>
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