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Great show last night. It may have been obvious but did the mining company buy the land where the proposed mine is to be constructed? If so, from whom and for how much? Or are they leasing the land?

I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!!

WOW!! Can't believe you guys shot that on a RED ONE!!! so cool!!! and a 5D!!! wow!!!!

Anything that needs to be monitored/maintained through eternity should never be allowed. That "oops" can't be fixed. What are they thinking???

I wonder how long it will be before beautiful Alaska goes to GREED!!!

This show really made me think. When all the fish are gone, will the gold really be worth it ?

I agree Judy, just like the BP oil spill. big oops.

Sushi time.

The Earth will wipe us off her back, man has become a parasite
Digging and striping into her skin.
The floods will come and we will become fossils and the poisoned planet once called Earth will be no more.......

so please hilight this issue in your show thank u

Local Voices should be heard- I don't go to the lower 48 and say what can and can't be done, This show was all No Pebble, they must have greased someones palm. no one from the Nushagak River what a shame.

They've GOT to do a tunnel mine instead. Just for gold, not copper... Save the salmon!

Great reporting....great educational moment. Thanks again FRONTLINE.

What I find most disturbing is the scene in Alaska decrying Federal interference when most of those folks never visit that part of Alaska or deal with the Fisheries and most of the folks in the Fishery region were happy for EPA involvement. See, that's *absolute* hypocrisy! Wah wah the Federal Government what has nothing to do with Alaska is interfering with our State Sovereign Right to oppress the rights of a region in the same way we don't have anything to do with! You can't have it both ways: you're either for devolution of power or against it!

Now, what I liked about this story is it didn't make it about the Environment because we all know very few Environmentalists approve of Open Pit Mining wherever it is; it's just not something Teddy Roosevelt would have liked in America's wilderness. But here we have one industry pitted against another and really I do see both sides because Copper is pretty expensive now. One need only read all the stories of copper thieves ripping out peoples drains for scrap. I would like to see more domestic Copper production despite the fact I love the environment and I love my Electric Car and as a computer guy I know what they all need to run and am just glad copper is a lot more abundant than silver or gold and yet doesn't tarnish even if Gold doesn't tarnish and silver is a better conductor. But I also think the fishery would be endangered with the open slurry pit.

And finally, I think you guys should call up NOVA and ask them to do a story on Sulfur-loving Extremophile bacteria. Seems to me in this new genetic age we may be 50 years, if not sooner, from constructing a bacterium that loves that acid environment and would break down the Sulfuric Acid and concentrate the metals such that we could extract them magnetically. And do so with a progressive system where the water gets cleaner and cleaner until it's clean enough for the environment. The added benefit is you get out all the metals in solution. Alas, we don't have this technology today and so until we do, until that day comes, had I my druthers, there'd be no Pebble mine.

Why are you spamming your Facebook fans FRONTLINE about a Twitter campaign? Your Facebook fans are a different audience.

Just saw this show on my DVR. Alaska is so beautiful and this wetland with wild salmon in its rivers is the last place to build a permanent copper/gold mine. You don't need to be a scientist to make a decision on this one. A big fat NO!

FRONTLINE, how could you with any conscience use so much footage from another documentary and give it so little credit? I am profoundly disappointed, and wonder how many other pieces of yours have the same lack of journalistic ethic and transparency.