The Pebble project (Image courtesy of Northern Dynasty Minerals)
The US Army Corps of Engineers has accepted the request of Northern Dynasty Minerals (TSX: NDM) to appeal the latest refusal to grant a water licence to the Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum project. The Corps issued a negative Record of Decision in November 2020, the latest in a long line of permitting delays.
Northern Dynasty has taken the position that the ‘significant degradation’ finding by the Corps, its public interest review findings and its perfunctory rejection of Pebble’s compensatory mitigation plan (CMP) are contrary to law, unprecedented in Alaska, and fundamentally unsupported by the administrative record, including the Pebble project environmental impact statement (EIS) EIS.
