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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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          <title>Alaskan Hopes Pinned on New B.C. Government as Sale Looms for Polluting Mine</title>
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          <title>Comparing Mine Management in B.C. and Alaska is Embarrassing (and Explains Why Alaskans Are So Mad)</title>
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          <dc:creator>Judith Lavoie</dc:creator>

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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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          <dc:creator>Judith Lavoie</dc:creator>

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          <title>B.C. Ignores Best Practices, Allows Mount Polley-style Tailings Dams on Alaska Border, New Report Finds</title>
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          <title>Cross-Border Agreement Disappoints Alaskan Fishing and Environmental Groups Wanting More Input into B.C. Mines</title>
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          <dc:creator>Judith Lavoie</dc:creator>

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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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          <title>The Trouble With Tailings: Toxic Waste ‘Time Bombs’ Loom Large Over Alaska’s Salmon Rivers</title>
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               B.C. First Nationsl Energy and Mining Council               </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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