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Knowledge is Power
To start off, it is instructive to see
what is happening with the
Bristol Bay Native Corporation
The Bristol Bay Native Corporation (BBNC) is the only one of the 13 Native Corporations that is against the Pebble mine. The elected leaders of the BBNC are virulent antagonists of the Pebble mine, but it is the Alaskan Natives of the area that are the true people in charge of the corporation, through their privately owned shares of corporation stock.
Last year Pebble Limited Partnership created an {advisory board} and asked people to join it, including Pebble opponents. So that Pebble could interact directly with them, listen to their concerns, and work with them in resolving them.
One of BBNC's board members announced that she was going to talk to the Pebble Partnership. She said that she was not for the Pebble mine at this time, but that it would only be fair to the people in her jurisdiction to find out what Pebble had in mind for the mine, and see if it would actually harm the Bristol Bay area.
BBNC's management were furious. They ostracized her. They got her neighbors to lecture her. They did this non-stop, and she finally resigned.
However, this made other people furious at the BBNC management. Two board members stepped forward and said that they were going to take her place, and talk to the Pebble Partnership, and that nobody was going to intimidate them into resigning.
In addition to that, Abe Williams, a BBNC shareholder, and fourth-generation Bristol Bay fisherman, wrote an {opinions piece:}
"Bristol Bay Native Corp. needs to rethink the region’s needs and its opposition to Pebble."