In regard to Spencer Knutsen's Aug. 6 letter, "No happy medium in Homer," maybe Spencer would complain less if he moved to Anchorage where loaves of bread, gas and oil cost less. People leave Homer because they can't make it. A lot of people work two or more jobs here so they can. How would Bristol Bay feel about Spencer's letter to the editor? Does Spencer already work for that mining conglomerate that's looking for that little rock?

What percent of Alaskans are happy with how Exxon treated them? Do you think this hungry mining company is going to treat Alaska, the last frontier, and its citizens any different? How honest is this giant mining conglomerate?

I once read an article about how they painted prison cells pink. The color pink supposedly made the prisoners more passive. Why doesn't this huge company give their proposed mine a name that more honestly describes it? How about Bristol Bay Toxic Production Company, or Where's That !*$%# Pebble Sorry We Made Such A Mess Company. Their name is like the pink paint. Even the anti-mining bumper stickers feed into the image that this giant mining conglomerate is small and is mining for something that is little and benign. They aren't mining for pebbles, so why have they named it that? Maybe they want to keep us in a pink jail cell?

What will this rather large mining conglomerate do when they finally have an oops? Do you think they will treat Alaska any better than Exxon did? Like Exxon, they have massive amounts of money. They are not nave; we will not be their first frontier to conquer.

Spencer needs work. He could be employed by this mining conglomerate for decades, even retire, but what about his Alaskan grandchildren who may be living near the mine and his old friends on Bristol bay? What has he left for them? What will they think of Grandpa Spencer and good old Spence from Bristol Bay? They might get work in the clean up, but oops Exxon didn't want to do much of that, so why would this foreign mining organization want to. Hasta la vista, baby.

The name pebble is like a curtain that attempts to subdue and deceive us of the truth that lies behind it. Have we learned from Exxon? Water, trillions of pebbles and oil equal disaster. Water, trillions of pebbles and Pebble Mine's enormous huge giant amount of toxic mining byproducts also will equal disaster at some point. I hope Alaskans won't let themselves be run over by another tanker!

Will Easton