'Had it just been the environmentalists, we wouldn't have won,' Caroline Byrd, executive director of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, says. 'We won because everybody knows that Yellowstone is more precious than gold.' (via hereandnow)
Emigrant Peak is seen rising above the Paradise Valley and the Yellowstone River near Emigrant, Mont., Monday, Oct. 8, 2018.
"It's a really outstanding piece of wild country, and the thought of a giant, giant industrial gold mine on the flanks of Paradise Valley 16 miles from Yellowstone was just unthinkable, so that's when we really mobilized," she says. "Sadly, it's also associated with an ore body, or its chemistry is such that the gold that we have around Yellowstone is always going to have acid mine drainage," Byrd says."It's always going to be a pollution for water. It's always going to be an industrial mess. There's no way of mining this gold without having permanent pollution.The bill passed by the House permanently blocks commercial mining on those public lands, she says.
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