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Alaska's Bristol Bay & The Pebble Mine ... As proposed, the Pebble Mine project would entail mining a pit over a mile long, a mile wide and 200 meters deep, destroying nearly 3,500 acres of wetlands, lakes, and ponds …
Our recent research assesses risk of large-scale mining in Bristol Bay, a the place where clean and free-flowing rivers have long provided a remarkably valuable wild and sustainable fisheries resource.Specifically, we've thoroughly reviewed the likelihood of a tailings dam failure in the Bristol Bay headwaters. Among pressing concerns is the possibility of an …
Latest News On January 31, 2023, the Environment Protection Agency issued a Clean Water Act section 404(c) Final Determination to prohibit and restrict the use of certain waters in the Bristol Bay watershed as disposal sites for mining waste. This decision provides the strongest level of habitat protection currently available for the largest sockeye salmon […]
March 15, 2024 — "We are filing litigation to fully contest the EPA's unprecedented and unlawful actions against the Pebble Project. Since our objections to the politically motivated actions by the EPA have long fallen on …
The EPA is exercising its rarely-used "veto authority" under section 404 (c) of the Clean Water Act to prohibit mining the Pebble deposit. This is the 14th time in the history of the Clean ...
Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has denied a permit for the massive Pebble Mine project in Alaska – a proposed open-pit copper and gold mine that ...
The end of the road for Alaska's Pebble Mine project. South-western Alaska's Pebble deposit holds world-class resources of copper, gold, silver, rhenium and more, but the project to develop it has been mired in controversy in …
The project has been through a roller coaster of regulations for the past 15 years. Former US President Barack Obama opposed the project, and his successor Donald Trump ultimately did, too, after ...
Biden to block Pebble project in Alaska Bloomberg News | January 30, 2023 | 1:44 pm Intelligence USA Copper Gold Molybdenum Alaska, Bristol Bay sockeye salmon by the droves.
Full circle, the present issues surrounding the Pebble Mine project in Alaska are intricately linked to the statehood act of Alaska. The Alaska Statehood Act of 1958, which paved the way for Alaska to become the 49th …
In response, Alaska Wildlife Alliance and other Alaskan and national groups, represented by Trustees for Alask a, filed a motion in May to intervene in US District Court to defend the EPA's decision to stop the Pebble Mine project in Bristol Bay.
E.P.A. Blocks Long-Disputed Mine Project in Alaska. The move to ban disposal of mining wastes near the site of the proposed Pebble mine, made under the Clean Water Act, protects a valuable salmon ...
After a decades-long controversy, the Biden administration took a rare step this week to stop the giant Pebble copper and gold mine in Southwest Alaska. But observers of the project say the fight ...
The Pebble Project is located in southwestern Alaska, 200 miles from Anchorage and 60 miles from tidewater at Cook Inlet and 17 miles NW of Iliamna, Alaska. The Pebble ... located on State of Alaska land, PLP mining claim, on Sharp Mountain approximately 17 miles from the Iliamna Airportat 59d 46 55.70 N, 155d 26 01.72W.
The agency specifically used language in the Clean Water Act that allows the EPA to exercise "veto authority" to effectively kill the project, which it has only invoked three times over the past three decades, according to Alaska Public Media. (RELATED: Native American Group Slams Biden Admin's Move To Limit New Oil Projects In Alaska)
The most significant watersheds for salmon are located in the heart of the bay, at the northeastern end of Iliamna Lake. It's here that the Pedro Bay Corporation, an Alaska Native corporation, has been a longstanding steward of the critical fish and wildlife habitat and traditional cultural resources threatened by the proposed Pebble Mine ...
Mining companies have long been interested in developing southwestern Alaska's Pebble deposit, with enthusiastic support from Alaska Natives who see a mine as an economic lifeline for their communities and heritage. ... Because the proposed mine project would take place partly in waters regulated by the Clean Water Act, PLP sought a permit ...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials describe the Pebble mine as one that would remove 99 miles of fish habitat but poses little risk to the areas beyond the mine site in the project's final environmental impact statement released Thursday.. A copy of the document detailing the agency's review of the highly contentious copper and gold mine project …
Iliamna Natives Limited and the Alaska Peninsula Corporation filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday, alleging the EPA overstepped its authority with its final decision to axe the Pebble Mine project. Both the State of Alaska and the parent company of Pebble have similar lawsuits filed over the January 2023 final decision, …
The proposed Pebble mine site, pictured in 2014. ... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday morning that it is effectively killing the controversial Pebble mine project in ...
The US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to block the proposed Pebble copper and gold mining project near Alaska's ecologically sensitive Bristol Bay watershed is "unlawful ...
The Pebble Mine could jeopardize this fishery. Forrest Fisher Photo. Not far from Anchorage, Alaska, generations of people among multiple nations of the world have relied on the fishery resources of Bristol Bay. The Pebble Mine project has been a …
The E.P.A. has proposed to ban the disposal of mining waste in the Bristol Bay watershed, a decision that very likely means the end of the Pebble Mine project. Share full article 102
Unfortunately, Pebble's proponents have turned up in court again to push their mining agenda despite overwhelming opposition in Alaska. Pebble Limited Partnership (a subsidiary of Northern Dynasty of Canada) went to court challenging EPA's prohibition on large scale mining in March 2024. The State of Alaska soon followed.
Anglers in Iliamna, Alaska, catch sockeye salmon. The Environmental Protection Agency said the proposed Pebble Mine project would damage salmon fisheries in the Bristol Bay watershed.
The Pebble Mine project advanced to the final step of the permitting process would produce 320 million pounds of copper; 363,000 ounces of gold; 15 million pounds of molybdenum; 1.8 million oz of silver; and 12,000 …
Pebble Limited Partnership, the company that would control the mine commonly known as Pebble Mine, argues it would bring economic opportunity to the Bristol Bay region of Alaska. However, the ...
The mine, spearheaded by Pebble Limited Partnership, a U.S. offshoot of Canadian mining company Northern Dynasty Minerals, was to be a massive gold and copper excavation project, as deep as the ...
The possibility that the project will be resurrected has also drawn Pebble mine opponents into the new Supreme Court faceoff. The Bristol Bay Native Corp. and United Tribes of Bristol Bay jointly filed a motion with the Supreme Court on Thursday in support of the EPA and against the state effort, and Trout Unlimited filed a similar motion. ...
The Environmental Protection Agency told staff scientists that it was no longer opposing a controversial Alaska mining project that could devastate one of the world's most valuable wild salmon ...