A group of Alaskans who worry their quality of life might be affected by a massive strip mine near their homes is asking investors in the mine to consider not ruining their lives. One of those investors is the owner of Snowbird, Dick Bass. They’ve written letters to the ski hill owner and enlisted the help of the local Utah Sierra chapter.

“This is the ultimate irony; a climate-dependent businessman investing in a project that would have the same climate-changing impact as more than a billion cars,” said Clair Jones with the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign in Utah. “We’re here to ask Dick Bass to leave this dirty coal in the ground, due to the impacts that this project would incur on our planet’s climate, and ultimately Utah’s winters and its billion dollars-per-year ski industry.”

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