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Alaska gov calls for halt of Pebble EIS

Contends project is not ready for review, AMA says he is wrong North of 60 Mining News – July 6, 2018

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker has called for a halt to an environmental review process aimed at determining whether a mine at Pebble can be developed in a way that protects the environment of the Bristol Bay region where the world-class copper-gold-molybdenum deposit is found.

In a June 29 letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, also signed by Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, Walker questioned the "readiness...

 
 

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Eidolon writes:

This is a huge mistake by the governor.

 
 
 
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