Whisper to the Blood: 16 (A Kate Shugak Investigation 16) by Dana Stabenow

Author:Dana Stabenow
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Recent July 2014, Crime
ISBN: 9781781850459
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 2012-10-09T23:00:00+00:00

15

Dinah met Jim at the door, finger to her lips, and stepped back to let him enter.

Bobby was right where Jim wanted him, broadcasting on Park Air, the pirate radio station that had been changing channels one step ahead of the FCC for a dozen years now. This morning featured an interview with one Talia Macleod of Global Harvest Resources Inc. Bobby was sitting knee to knee with her in front of a microphone and appeared spellbound. Nothing loath, she was flirting hard right back, but that didn’t stop either one of them from getting what they wanted said out on the air.

“Open pit mining isn’t known for having the environmental friendlies,” Bobby said. “Don’t you need a lot of water for the extraction process? Where you gonna pull all that water from?”

“Plenty of water in local feeder streams to get the job done,” Talia said, her voice a low purr.

Anyone listening would think, with some justification, that they were listening to pillow talk, Jim thought. Talia looked up and saw him, and a smile spread across her face. Behind Jim, Dinah frowned.

“Yeah, but babe,” Bobby said, his voice a correspondingly caressing rumble, “those feeder streams are pretty much all of them salmon streams. You might miss the Gruening River, it being so far up the valley from the mine, but what about Keehler Creek, Jones Creek, the Stone River? They run straight down the valley. You’re going to use toxic chemicals to extract the gold, which means you’re going to have a lot of acid runoff. It gets into those salmon streams, the salmon are dead.” He gave her a winsome smile, his caressing tone unchanging. “And so are a lot of the families who live off those salmon runs, from Ahtna to Alaganik Bay.”

Talia returned a smile every bit as winning as his own. “If you’d look at our construction plans, Bobby, you’d see that we have designed a 4,700-acre drainage lake to capture all the acid runoff, protected by a dam.” Her smile widened. “Two dams, in fact, just in case. Global Harvest is all about safety first.”

“Earthen dams, as I understand it,” Bobby said without missing a beat. “Made out of dirt. Which, as we all know, turns to mud in the rain.” He chuckled. “And then there are, um, what do you call those things? Earthquakes, that’s it. A whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on. What does that do to the stability of a dam that’s going to be bigger than the Hoover Dam? Sounds like a Superfund site in the making to me.”

“Why, Bobby,” she said, “if I didn’t know better I’d say you were against the Suulutaq Mine.”

“You would?” Bobby said innocently.

They laughed together. Jim looked at Dinah, who rolled her eyes and went to admire Katya’s efforts at a dangerously tilting block castle.

“No reason for you to be against it,” Talia murmured, “and plenty of them for you to be for it. Didn’t I mention? We’re going to be bringing jobs into the Park in numbers that haven’t been seen since the old days of the Kanuyaq Mine.

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