Ep. 241: A Half Life of Never

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Tim Bristol, Miles Nolte, and Janis Putelis.

Topics discussed: The skinny on Pebble Mine; size, type, and location; dead snow geese in a toxic hole; Butte’s Berkeley Pit; ten billion tons of waste; cyanide leech mining; the Richter scale and how Richter was a nudist; milk, bourbon, and other causes of mass fish die offs; the incredible value of sockeye salmon to life; how everything is keyed in to the salmon lifecycle; the Pebble Beach golf course; when the state pays you to be a resident; Steve being clear on where he's coming from and his $1,000 bet with his sister-in-law; the EPA and Clean Water Act as the last stand; empty statements like empty air; how Alaskans don't want Pebble; the amount of money spent on lawyers and how the debate on Pebble is an economic driver; how conservation in Alaska is a different fight; holding on to perfect things; how to take action and stop Pebble Mine; and more.

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0:00.0	This is the meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely bugged bitten in my case
0:14.8	underwear-less meat and pun.
0:15.8	Let me feed her podcast.
0:17.6	You can't predict anything.
0:20.4	Presented by ONX Hunt, creators of the most comprehensive digital mapping system for
0:25.1	hunters, download the Hunt app from the iTunes or Google Play Store.
0:29.4	Nor you stand with ONX.
0:37.4	Hey everybody, I don't want to discourage you from listening to this episode.
0:41.1	It's about Pebble Mine in Alaska and everything you're going to hear is pertinent and relevant.
0:45.8	But here's the weird thing.
0:48.7	While we were recording this episode with Tim Bristol about Pebble Mine in Bristol
0:54.9	Bay, Alaska, a big news story broke.
0:59.7	In this episode, you're going to hear a mention of a guy named Tim Collier who works on behalf
1:05.4	of Pebble Mine.
1:07.7	While we were recording the show, it came out that Tim Collier, who served a CEO role on
1:13.6	the Pebble Mine project, was secretly recorded, saying some things that are speculated about
1:22.9	in this coming episode.
1:25.1	This will make more sense after you listen.
1:27.3	For instance, he acknowledges to some people who are posing as potential investors to the
1:32.5	Mine we're going to be discussing today.
1:34.9	He acknowledges not that this would be a 20-year project, but that Phase One of this project
1:40.7	would be a 180-200-year project.
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