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Ep. 241: A Half Life of Never

Published: 2020-10-05 09:00:00
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Steven Rinella talks with Tim Bristol, Miles Nolte, and Janis Putelis.

Topics discussed: The skinny on Pebble Mine; size, type, and location; dead snow geese in a toxic hole; Butte’s Berkeley Pit; ten billion tons of waste; cyanide leech mining; the Richter scale and how Richter was a nudist; milk, bourbon, and other causes of mass fish die offs; the incredible value of sockeye salmon to life; how everything is keyed in to the salmon lifecycle; the Pebble Beach golf course; when the state pays you to be a resident; Steve being clear on where he's coming from and his $1,000 bet with his sister-in-law; the EPA and Clean Water Act as the last stand; empty statements like empty air; how Alaskans don't want Pebble; the amount of money spent on lawyers and how the debate on Pebble is an economic driver; how conservation in Alaska is a different fight; holding on to perfect things; how to take action and stop Pebble Mine; and more.

 

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Referenced Books

This is Chance
by John Mooallem
Steve Rinella mentions reading this book about the 1964 Anchorage earthquake. He discusses how the author (who has been on his show) wrote about the earthquake, and Steve shares details from the book about Charles Richter developing his seismic scale and detecting the earthquake from California. The discussion occurs during a conversation about seismic activity in Alaska and the risks to the proposed Pebble Mine.
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