‘Release the Miners’: Juneau pushes for local mining industry involvement to expedite enduring solution for glacial lake outburst floods

‘Release the Miners’: Juneau pushes for local mining industry involvement to expedite enduring solution for glacial lake outburst floods

Officials from Hecla Greens Creek Mining Co. and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are scheduled to meet Monday for a tour of the mine on Admiralty Island. The meeting comes after years of a community push for an expedited long-term solution to glacial lake outburst floods — a plea that has gained momentum in the last two weeks.  Brian Erickson, vice president of operations at Greens Creek, said the plan is to demonstrate the methodology the mine…