{"id":724,"date":"2019-03-26T10:20:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/?p=724"},"modified":"2019-03-26T10:36:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:36:29","slug":"many-alaska-peninsula-corporation-shareholders-arent-willing-to-trade-salmon-for-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/many-alaska-peninsula-corporation-shareholders-arent-willing-to-trade-salmon-for-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Alaska Peninsula Corporation shareholders aren\u2019t willing to trade salmon for gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Alaska Peninsula Corporation (APC) is the merged Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act village corporation for the Bristol Bay communities of South Naknek, Newhalen, Port Heiden, Ugashik and Kokhanok. Recently, ADN ran an opinion piece from APC CEO Dave McAlister regarding the proposed Pebble Mine, a project he believes can save the communities around Lake Iliamna from economic demise. I am an APC shareholder. I live in Igiugig, one of those wonderful Lake Iliamna communities, and I disagree. I believe Pebble\u2019s construction and operation will bring more destruction than benefits to our homes. I also believe a majority of APC shareholders share my opinion and have grave concerns about the access agreement APC recently signed with the Pebble Limited Partnership.<\/p>\n

Read More: Many Alaska Peninsula Corporation shareholders aren\u2019t willing to trade salmon for gold<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Pile River flows into Lake Iliamna, nursery of many sockeye salmon, in the Bristol Bay region. The Pebble mine would sit just above the lake.<\/em><\/p>\n

Anchorage Daily News Photo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Alaska Peninsula Corporation (APC) is the merged Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act village corporation for the Bristol Bay communities of South Naknek, Newhalen, Port Heiden, Ugashik and Kokhanok. Recently, ADN ran an opinion piece from APC CEO Dave McAlister regarding the proposed Pebble Mine, a project he believes can save the communities around Lake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-release","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}