Biden to block Alaska gold mine in area rich with wild salmon. mining miningnews
The Biden administration is set to ban the dumping of mining waste near Bristol Bay, Alaska, by issuing a decree that thwarts longstanding plans to extract gold, copper and molybdenum because of potential harm to the region’s thriving sockeye salmon industry.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s final determination expected soon would effectively block the mine planned by Pebble Limited Partnership as well as future mining of the same deposit in headwaters of Bristol Bay, home to the world’s largest sockeye harvest. The planned action was described by people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because the decision hasn’t been announced.Pebble, a subsidiary of publicly traded Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd.
The proposed Pebble Mine has been a source of contention for years. Under former President Barack Obama, the EPA recommended restrictions that would rule out the project. But the agency later withdrew the controls after a legal challenge. A federal judge last year sent the issue back to the EPA for reconsideration.Bristol Bay supplies roughly half of the world’s wild sockeye salmon, generating an estimated $2.2 billion in economic activity each year.
The ban, being ordered under the Clean Water Act, represents a victory for conservationists who have lobbied the Biden administration to definitively kill the mine by wielding the EPA’s broad authority under the statute to veto projects involving the discharge of dredged material.
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