Alex,
     How many of your remarks are true? Right from Pebbles own website they are only claiming up to 1000 jobs that will last from 20 to 25 years. Then what? Look at Detroit or Pittsburgh after their economy's turned down. And they had more than one industry to fall back on. It happens everywhere, when the industry dries up and the company's leave, it is left up to the local people and tax payers to clean up the mess left behind. Why risk one of the greatest unspoiled places on Earth so a very few people can make a little more money?