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Pebble parent company to appeal Army Corps’ decision to reject mine permit Author: Anchorage Daily News Print article The parent company of the Pebble Limited Partnership said it is appealing the Trump administration’s recent decision to deny a key permit for the controversial mine proposal in the Bristol Bay region of Southwest Alaska. In a written statement Thursday, Northern Dynasty Minerals President and CEO Ron Thiessen said the rejection was “without precedent in the long history of responsible resource development in Alaska.” The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in November ...

Wed, 12/16/2020 - 9:10am A helicopter hovers over a camp at the Pebble mine prospect in this 2010 file photo. The decade-plus fight over the project appears to be nearing an end after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied the compay’s proposed mitigation plan in November. (Photo/Andrew Jensen/AJOC) The Pebble project ended the year on life support after the Army Corps of Engineers handed down strict wetlands mitigation requirements the company was not able to meet. From the outside things appeared to be moving well for the company through midsummer; the Corps released the final Pebble e...

Trump administration denies permit for Pebble mine December 3rd, 2020 |     The Trump administration on Wednesday rejected a permit for the controversial Pebble copper and gold mine in Southwest Alaska. The decision could be a fatal blow for the long-sought, roller-coaster effort to build the giant project near the world's largest wild sockeye salmon fishery in Bristol Bay. The mine developers plan to appeal the decision back to federal regulators, but with the opposition of President-elect Joe Biden and many others, the project's days may be limited. Pebble opponents, including Sen. ...

Reverse position, reminding the governor's staff in another e-mail, the epa's lack of cooperation contradicts everything they were promised last week by the president. the very next day, epa trump appointees reversed course, told its top staff in seattle the withdrawal of protections is a now a done deal, one official told cnn, we were told to get out of the way and just make it happen. a month later the epa made that secret decision official, giving the mining company the win it needed. in response alaska's governor, john, didn't answer a single question, only giving us a statement saying he ...

In announcement was worse than doing nothing. pebble asks for immediate intervention, a presidential tweet or try to get the epa to reverse position, reminding the governor's staff in another e-mail, the epa's lack of cooperation contradicts everything they were promised last week by the president. the very next day, epa trump appointees reversed course, told its top staff in seattle the withdrawal of protections is a now a done deal, one official told cnn, we were told to get out of the way and just make it happen. a month later the epa made that secret decision official, giving the mining co...