In response to the ‘Request for Appeal’ sent today by Northern Dynasty Minerals to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ regarding the agency’s decision to deny the 404 permit for the proposed Pebble mine, Nelli Williams, Alaska director of Trout Unlimited, issued the following statement:

In response to Governor Dunleavy’s intention to appeal the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to deny the 404 permit for the proposed Pebble mine, Nelli Williams, Alaska director of Trout Unlimited, issued the following statement:

WASHINGTON, D.C. - More than 250 national outdoor sporting businesses and organizations, representing millions of hunters, anglers and outdoor enthusiasts who value and depend on the highly productive Bristol Bay region of Alaska, have urged President Donald J. Trump to safeguard American jobs and industry by denying a key permit for the proposed Pebble mine in a letter delivered today.

ANCHORAGE, AK – Today, Judge Sharon Gleason told Trout Unlimited, Bristol Bay organizations and other groups their lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for arbitrarily withdrawing safeguards for the region’s fishery, called the Bristol Bay Proposed Determination, are dismissed.

ANCHORAGE, AK - Just weeks after the U.S. EPA released comments critical of Pebble’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement, the agency today withdrew the 2014 Proposed Determination. If finalized, the Proposed Determination would have safeguarded the Bristol Bay region – the world’s greatest wild salmon ecosystem – from the proposed Pebble mine and other large-scale industrial development by placing limits on the amount of mine waste that can be disposed of in Bristol Bay’s rivers and wetlands.