Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008 | 3:08 p.m.
WASHINGTON — For Nevadans interested in VP Sarah Palin’s views on mining, the state’s No. 2 industry, here's a NYT story on her approach toward the massive Pebble Mine proposed for Alaska’s Bristol Bay:
“Two years ago, Sarah Palin … spoke of her love for the vast and starkly beautiful delta that drains into Bristol Bay.
“I am a commercial fisherman; my daughter’s name is Bristol,” said Ms. Palin, then a candidate for governor. “I could not support a project that risks one resource that we know is a given, and that is the world’s richest spawning grounds, over another resource...”
“But as governor, Ms. Palin has helped ease the way for a proposed copper and gold mine of near-mythic proportions at the headwaters of Bristol Bay, the world’s greatest spawning ground for wild salmon …
“Ms. Palin has remained officially neutral, saying that the state will evaluate the project when it receives a formal permit application.
“But she has embraced resource extraction in ways that are likely to help Pebble.
“On the presidential campaign trail in coal country this month, she led supporters in chants of “Mine, baby, mine!”
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