After mining exec weighs in, Juneau Assembly holds off on boundary mine resolution

NASA satellite imagery shows Southeast Alaska in true color on Nov. 24, 2001. (Public domain image by Jacques Descloitres/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC)
A local mine executive urged the Juneau Assembly to reconsider a resolution urging federal action on transboundary mining, and the Assembly did on Monday night.
The resolution would have urged the federal government to invoke a treaty to enforce protections for Alaska resources from upstream mines in British Columbia. Recently, the b