The Biden Administration’s latest action under the federal Clean Water Act against the Pebble Project would prevent the project from even having a chance to move through a fair and complete permitting process. Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy is warning Alaskans about the implications for Alaska’s entire mining industry. Alaska Governor Mr Dunleavy said “Mining provides some of the best paying jobs in the state. Jobs that have never been needed more for Alaskan families to survive record price hikes in food and gas prices under Biden Administration policies. EPA’s action could very well become the template for stopping future mines in Alaska and across the country. Alaska will not be bullied by Washington DC bureaucrats. The EPA action also breaks promises made to Alaska by the Federal government in the Statehood Act.” Specifically, the Congress promised the State of Alaska the state would receive both ownership of minerals in the subsurface of state land, and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same. Alaskans bargained hard and fought for the right to own state lands, own the minerals under those lands, and to remove minerals for the benefit of all Alaskans. The federal government agreed but now wants to break that promise. EPA Region 10 is taking public comments on the proposed determination at public hearings in June and in writing through July 5.Pebble Mine is the common name of a proposed copper-gold-molybdenum mining project in the Bristol Bay region of Southwest Alaska, near Lake Iliamna and Lake Clark by Northern Dynasty Minerals
The Biden Administration’s latest action under the federal Clean Water Act against the Pebble Project would prevent the project from even having a chance to move through a fair and complete permitting process. Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy is warning Alaskans about the implications for Alaska’s entire mining industry. Alaska Governor Mr Dunleavy said “Mining provides some of the best paying jobs in the state. Jobs that have never been needed more for Alaskan families to survive record price hikes in food and gas prices under Biden Administration policies. EPA’s action could very well become the template for stopping future mines in Alaska and across the country. Alaska will not be bullied by Washington DC bureaucrats. The EPA action also breaks promises made to Alaska by the Federal government in the Statehood Act.” Specifically, the Congress promised the State of Alaska the state would receive both ownership of minerals in the subsurface of state land, and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same. Alaskans bargained hard and fought for the right to own state lands, own the minerals under those lands, and to remove minerals for the benefit of all Alaskans. The federal government agreed but now wants to break that promise. EPA Region 10 is taking public comments on the proposed determination at public hearings in June and in writing through July 5.Pebble Mine is the common name of a proposed copper-gold-molybdenum mining project in the Bristol Bay region of Southwest Alaska, near Lake Iliamna and Lake Clark by Northern Dynasty Minerals