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Northern Dynasty Minerals said on Friday it has filed two separate actions in the federal courts challenging the federal government’s actions to prevent the company from building a mine at its Pebble project in Alaska.
In its complaint, the company alleges that the EPA veto was issued in violation of various federal statutes regarding Alaska’s statehood rights and a land exchange approved by Congress. “The EPA has not demonstrated that either the development of the Pebble deposit will have unacceptable adverse effects under Section 404, or that there are any impacts to Bristol Bay fisheries that would justify the extreme measures in the final determination ,” Northern Dynasty“Whatever authority the EPA may have under section 404, the general provision in the Clean Water Act cannot authorize the EPA to take action to block the specific economic activity that was Congress’s express purpose for...
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