EPA vetoes Pebble Mine project in Alaska's Bristol Bay to protect salmon FOX13
The move by the agency, heralded by Alaska Native tribes and environmentalists who have long pushed for it, deals a potentially devastating blow to the proposed Pebble Mine and comes while an earlier rejection of a key federal permit for the project remains unresolved.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan said his agency’s use of its so-called veto authority in this case "underscores the true irreplaceable and invaluable natural wonder that is Bristol Bay." The agency, citing an analysis by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said discharges of dredged or fill material to build and operate the proposed mine site would result in a loss of nearly 100 miles of stream habitat, as well as wetland areas.
The Pebble deposit is near the headwaters of the Bristol Bay watershed, which supports a bounty of salmon "unrivaled anywhere in North America," the EPA has said.
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