Green Movie Night - "Alaska Gold"

The Green Movie Night series presents a screening of the powerful documentary, "Alaska Gold."

The Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska is home to the last great wild sockeye salmon fishery in the world. It’s also home to enormous mineral deposits estimated to be worth up to $500 billion. Two foreign mining companies are proposing to extract this mineral wealth by digging one of North America’s largest open-pit mines, the “Pebble Mine,” at the headwaters of Bristol Bay. This film travels to Alaska to probe the fault lines of the battle between those who depend on this extraordinary fishery for a living, the mining companies who are pushing for Pebble, and the political framework that will ultimately decide the outcome.

Following the screening, Tom Murray of the National Equal Justice Association will lead a discussion on how this type of struggle has parallels here in California and in Contra Costa County, from the proposed Montezuma pipeline project to pipe CO2 under the San Francisco Bay for injection thousands of feet underground in Montezuma wetlands, or more generally in California, the push to reopen offshore drilling for oil in Santa Barbara.

This is a FREE event and is open to everyone. Enjoy light snacks.

A free-will love donation will be gratefully accepted, but no one turned away!

Write to info@sustainablecoco.org with questions. Green Movie Nights are brought to you by the Interfaith Climate Action Network and Sustainable Contra Costa