Actually too many locals depend on the Bristol Bay fishery for their day to day sustenance; not worth the jobs created.
Imagine if every grocery in the lower 48 was infected with ebola and you all had to eat the food just because the govt said everything's just fine and dandy folks. Salmon is the main food source for people living there. Alaskans don't want outsiders or Alaskans destroying that food resource. Them Indians out there don't eat White Man's food.
“Imagine if every grocery in the lower 48 was infected with ebola and you all had to eat the food just because the govt said everything’s just fine and dandy folks”
They’d beleive and eat it anyway; the govenment doesn’t lie ...