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The Long Winding Road To Pebble
The Pebble Mine project has never been closer to becoming reality. A favorable Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) published in July was a key step in the project's progression from concept to active mine.
A Mine That Threatened Alaskan Salmon May Be No More
Called Pebble Mine, the proposed development included a mile-wide open-pit mine, a power plant, a gas pipeline, access roads and a port to take advantage of gold and copper deposits thought to be ...
Biden administration moves to halt Pebble mine
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to ask for court approval to set aside a Trump-era decision that halted its earlier effort to stop the mine.
EPA stops Alaska's Pebble mine with rarely used power
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday morning that it is effectively killing the controversial Pebble mine project in Southwest Alaska. …
The Science Is In: Pebble Mine Does Not Belong in the …
In order to access what geologists believe could be as much as $500 billion worth of copper, gold, and molybdenum within the mining claim, Pebble Mine's operations will require massive ...
Not digging it: First Quantum abandons Pebble project
Canada's First Quantum Minerals became the fourth mining company to abandon the Pebble Mine project in Bristol Bay. The first three — Mitsubishi, Anglo American and Rio Tinto — are the three largest mining companies in the world.
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Northern Dynasty is advancing the world-class Pebble Project in Alaska towards permitting and development.
Pebble Project – Alaska Division of Mining, Land, and Water
Pebble Project Project Description. The Pebble Project is a copper-gold-molybdenum porphyry deposit in the advanced exploration stage of development.
Alaska gold, copper mine blocked over environmental worries
FILE - Workers with the Pebble Mine project test drill in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska, near the village of Iliamma, on July 13, 2007. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a decision Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, that would block plans for the proposed Pebble Mine, a copper and gold project in southwest Alaska. (AP Photo/Al Grillo ...
Biden Administration Moves to Protect Alaska's Bristol Bay
The bay, home to a key sockeye salmon fishery, sits atop a massive gold and copper deposit, pitting environmentalists against mining companies.
Inside the latest Indigenous push to stop a massive copper mine
For years, backers of the Pebble Mine above Bristol Bay seemed to be grinding ahead. Alaska Natives in the region have thrown new sand in those gears.
EPA blocks mine project that threatened Alaskan salmon
The Environmental Protection Agency moved to block the Pebble Mine in Alaska on Tuesday, preventing mining waste discharges into the Bristol Bay watershed.
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Northern Dynasty and the Pebble Partnership file two separate actions in federal courts in March - a "takings" case and an action seeking to vacate the illegal veto - challenging the federal government's actions to prevent the companies from building a mine at Pebble.
Pebble Mine Environmental Impact
TNC and partners have used the best tech tools available to assess the risk of developing the proposed large-scale Pebble mine in Alaska's Bristol Bay—home to the largest runs of wild salmon on the planet.
Permit Denied for Pebble Mine Project in Alaska
The Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday denied a permit for the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska, likely dealing a death blow to a long-disputed project that aimed to extract one of the world's ...
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Pebble Watch is an impartial educational program that emphasizes facts to provide relevant information related to development of the proposed Pebble mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska. …
Everything You Need To Know About The Pebble Mine
Q. What is the Pebble Mine project? It's a project to build a gold and copper mine that would create a mine pit nearly as deep as the Grand Canyon. EPA estimates the mine would require excavation of the largest open pit ever constructed in North America and would cover nearly seven square miles at a maximum depth of over 3/4 of a mile.
Alaska Natives Lead a Unified Resistance to the Pebble Mine
The effort to stop a massive mine project in Bristol Bay, Alaska, has been a decades-long fight for the region's Indigenous People. Five tribal leaders share their experiences.
Conservation Groups Defend the U.S. Environmental …
Despite continued strong opposition to the proposed Pebble Mine within the Bristol Bay region, across Alaska and nationally, the mine's developers – Pebble Limited Partnership and its parent company Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. – filed a lawsuit in March to try to overturn the EPA's veto.
Petition · Protect Bristol Bay from the Pebble Mine
The Pebble Mine would be irreversible and catastrophic for Bristol Bay and its salmon. Join me in standing up for this natural treasure by demanding that the EPA protect Bristol Bay. Bristol Bay is home to the world's most valuable wild salmon fishery in the world – half of the world's sockeye salmon catch comes from here alone. The bay ...
Legislation to Stop the Pebble Mine Is Introduced
A new bill would protect Bristol Bay from the proposed Pebble Mine.
As EPA moves to block Pebble mine, supporters and …
Using its authority under the Clean Water Act, the agency proposes to prohibit the discharge of mining materials in waters and wetlands at the Pebble site.
Over Half a Million Back Call to 'End the Threat of Pebble Mine …
Representatives from the Bristol Bay Defense Fund--a coalition of advocacy, business, and tribal groups battling Pebble Mine--echoed the letter's points in a statement Tuesday. "EPA has a wealth of compelling reasons to veto the Pebble Mine," said Joel Reynolds, Western director and senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense …
Both sides dig in as EPA's final decision on Pebble Mine …
In 2012 and 2014, President Barack Obama's EPA released draft and final assessments saying the Pebble Mine would destroy up to 94 miles of streams, including …
Pebble Mine: Water-Related Impacts
The Bingham Canyon Mine, like Pebble, is a copper/ gold/molybdenum mine, currently the largest in North America with an ore body roughly half the size of Pebble. Pollution from the mine has contaminated 60 square miles of groundwater near Salt Lake City, mak-ing water unusable for at least 4,300 s. Ken-
Economic Opportunity
The Pebble Mine represents an important economic opportunity for the region, ... We import more and more of our mineral needs—almost half, in fact—to the point where we import all of some commodities that we used to mine domestically. As you've seen, nearly 50% of our copper is imported, and it's an integral part of our modern lives. ...
Opinion: As Alaskans consider Pebble Mine, a cautionary …
The current Pebble Mine proposal is smaller than the original, but that doesn't mean it is small. The Berkeley Pit is massive: a mile and a half wide and nearly 2,000 feet deep.
EPA Protects Bristol Bay, Alaska with Pebble Mine Veto
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Biden Administration today dealt a blow to the massive and controversial gold and copper mining project in Bristol Bay, Alaska called the Pebble Mine. The Environmental ...
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The world-class Pebble Project in Alaska is in federal permitting and being advanced toward development by Northern Dynasty. The Pebble Project is the world's most …
Conservation Groups Defend EPA Decision on Proposed Pebble Mine
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— A coalition of conservation organizations filed a motion today to intervene in a lawsuit to defend the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision that protects Bristol Bay from harmful mines, like the proposed Pebble Mine, under Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act. The EPA's decision in January 2023 blocking …
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A basic overview of the proposed Pebble mine, from plans to permitting. Learn where Pebble is located, who is trying to develop it and why, and what opponents and proponents have to say. ... representing approximately half of Bristol Bay's total sockeye salmon production.
Northern Dynasty's Pebble project passes key milestone
If permitted, Pebble would be North America's largest mine, with an estimate resource of 6.5 billion tonnes in the measured and indicated category.
Alaska's Bristol Bay & The Pebble Mine
In legal challenges filed in March and April 2024 in federal court in Alaska, the State, Pebble Limited Partnership and its parent company, Northern Dynasty …
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Northern Dynasty is advancing the world-class Pebble Project in Alaska towards permitting and development.
Half of Pebble Mine Partnership Calls it Quits
After years of fighting, activists who have been seeking to prevent the informally proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska's Bristol Bay region -- home of the world's two most prolific salmon runs -- may finally have something to cheer about. One of the two foreign companies in the joint venture formed to explore the Pebble deposit, Anglo American, announced today …
What's next for Pebble mine, now that the federal …
(Bill Roth / ADN archive) 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...
Pebble Mine Alaska: is this the end of the road?
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 years, with many issues building to a head in 2020. What are the key points of contention in the Pebble Mine …
Final Determination for Pebble Deposit Area | US EPA
EPA's Final Determination to prohibit and restrict the use of certain waters within the Pebble Deposit Area as disposal sites in southeast Alaska.