13-05-2016 01:57 via alaskapublic.org

YKHC Opposes Donlin Mine

What does rural healthcare in Alaska have to do with jobs? A lot, according to The Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation. The regional healthcare provider is opposing the Donlin Gold mine. And a big part of an anti-Donlin resolution the corporation passed last month focuses on the potential for jobs to leave the region if the mine is developed.
Donlin runway and camp site in summer 2014. (Photo by Dean Swope, KYUK – Bethel)In 2010 a group from YKHC and state officials hopped in a boat to
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