Your knee jerk positions are always mired in the past.  Coal markets are dead, and there's no way PacRim has a viable business plan. If they do have one, you should be the first one to ask them to show us all. Or should we keep wasting state and federal taxpayer money to entertain the folly this mine can be built? And tearing up an important watershed to produce low grade coal ignores the science behind salmon management. It's called the "portfolio effect" and you need diverse habitat - just like your retirement account needs diverse investments - to weather good times and bad. It's people like you who have created the illusion we can have it all, which has lead to the demise of salmon runs across the globe. We have one last chance to do it right in Alaska. You cannot have healthy salmon in the long term alongside large scale strip mining in coastal watersheds. So, stick to what you know, and it's not salmon science.