Alaska Water Wars: Stories from Bristol Bay PART 1

04/12/2017

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Episode Synopsis

Part 1 of 5: President Donald Trump's EPA may make it easier for a Canadian mining company to get permits it needs to build a large copper and gold mine on top of wetlands that feed one of the world's richest salmon fisheries in Southwest Alaska. But some local and indigenous people are resisting the project because of concerns it could ruin their fishing and way of life. At the center of it all is water.