Judy Heilman

OPINION: PacRim's unprecedented plan to strip-mine for coal through a salmon stream doesn't get better with age. Alaska needs to say no, now.

OPINION: Chuitna coal project is an idea about as un-Alaskan as it gets. Herbert Hunt needs to hear "no."

Few Alaskans probably know PacRim's proposed Chuitna coal strip mine in Upper Cook Inlet plans to be the first major strip mine project in Alaska's history to completely remove the streambed and permanently take out the "root" of 11 miles of vibrant salmon streams.