Mining boosters, environmentalists dig in over Juneau’s mining regulations

This public domain photo shows the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mine and Mill along Gold Creek.
(Photo by Arthur C. Spencer, USGS Bulletin 287, via Wikimedia Commons)
Juneau should revisit mining as a future economic engine. That’s the pitch making the rounds by a group of well-connected businessmen and former political operatives. But their proposal to streamline the city’s mining review process has environmentalists on guard.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/05/170522MINING-PKG.mp3