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On the Road: Alaska - Part 1

On the Road: Alaska - Part 1

The Interview vor 13 Jahren

The dispute between the fishing and mining industries over resources in Bristol Bay

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Hardtalk is on the road in Alaska. In the first of two
programmes, Stephen Sackur visits the Bristol Bay region of
south-west Alaska where the fishing industry, the mining industry
and the federal government are locked in a bitter argument over
environmental sustainability and resource exploitation. Every
year 40 million salmon swim into Bristol Bay before beginning
their journey up the rivers and streams of the region. It is one
of the world’s great fisheries. However 120 miles inland there is
a plan to build North American’s largest copper mine. Can the two
forms of resource exploitation co-exist?