I have 3 questions to my fellow commenters believe that magnum-scale open pit mining in the headwaters of the world's only wild salmon fisheries is a "good thing": 
 * Can you please name for me just one large scale open pit mine that has not devastated the local ecological environment; and that has restored that environment to pre-mine conditions? Just one?
* What size of a bond should be required of a project that has so much potential to fully destroy the esrth's  last wild salmon fishery? The value of 20 years of total harvest? 50 years?  Would you add anything for loss of ungulate, timber, bird, predator, hunting. subsistence habitat?
* Who should be entrusted with the power and authority for stopping  development or work? What agency would not be put under tremendous pressure to let mine development and operations keep proceeding, and would have the backbone to stop it anyway? 
Or are we, in all honestly, just a Third World country ready and eager to be "raped and pillaged"?