Jeweler Opposition to Bristol Bay Gold Grows [USA]
More than 50 jewelers, including Tiffany & Co., Zale Corp., and Jostens, have now signed on to a campaign launched in 2008 to boycott gold from a controversial mining project in Alaska's Bristol Bay watershed...The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said last week it would begin a scientific review of the watershed to assess how large-scale development would impact water quality... John Shively, CEO of the Pebble Limited Partnership [joint venture Northern Dynasty Minerals & Anglo American]...[said] "You have an existing resource, people that make a living off the resource, and native people who get their subsistence from the resource...They're concerned. They ought to be." Shively contends that modern technology would enable the mine to co-exist with the surrounding fisheries.