(2) VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / December 17, 2020 / Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (TSX:NDM)(NYSE American:NAK) ("Northern Dynasty" or the "Company") believes the US Army Corps of Engineers' ("USACE") perfunctory rejection last month of the Compensatory Mitigation Plan ("CMP") submitted for Alaska's Pebble Project is emblematic of the lead federal agency's recent permitting decision at Pebble, arguing it is contrary to law, unprecedented in Alaska and unsupported by the administrative record. Northern Dynasty's 100%-owned, US-based subsidiary Pebble Limited Partnership (the "Pebble Partnership") is preparing a 'request for appeal' ("RFA") with respect to the USACE's November 25, 2020 issuance of a negative Record of Decision ("ROD") for the proposed copper-gold-molybdenum-silver-rhenium mine. To be submitted in January 2021, the Pebble Partnership's RFA is expected to argue, among other things, that the USACE's mitigation requirements for Pebble are contrary to policy and precedent in Alaska, and the agency's rejection of its CMP is both procedurally and substantively invalid.