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Northern Dynasty: Alaska's Pebble Project Continues to Advance Despite COVID-19 Precautions
" The health and safety of our team and those who live in the region remain of paramount im...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Northern Dynasty: Alaska’s Pebble Project Continues to Advance Despite COVID-19 Precautions\"The health and safety of our team and those who live in the region remain of paramount importance.\"VANCOUVER / ACCESSWIRE / March 26, 2020 / Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (TSX:NDM)(NYSE American:NAK) (\"Northern Dynasty\" or the \"Company\") reports that work and progress at Alaska's Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum project continue to advance despite mandatory and voluntary steps being taken by its 100%-owned US-based subsidiary Pebble Limited Partnership (the \"Pebble Partnership\") to ensure the health and safety of its employees, consultants, partners and Alaska neighbours.The US Army Corps of Engineers (\"USACE\") is currently undertaking a federal Environmental Impact Statement (\"EIS\") permitting review of the Pebble Project under the National Environmental Policy Act. The USACE's schedule for the Pebble EIS process (as reflected on its pebbleprojecteis.com website) calls for a Final EIS and Record of Decision (\"ROD\") by mid-2020 - a target that has not been adjusted as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.Northern Dynasty President & CEO Ron Thiessen expressed his appreciation for the professionalism and dedication of the Company's staff, Pebble Partnership employees, federal and state regulators and others for observing critically important public health and safety protocols while also advancing a project that will be important to economic recovery in Alaska and the United States.Pebble Partnership CEO Tom Collier: \"In response to the Alaska Governor's order, we along with all other nonessential offices in Alaska have closed our office. I start early every morning with a series of separate phone calls with each of our teams to make sure everyone is focused each day on our priority- keeping on schedule for the timely publication of the Final EIS. Everyone on the Pebble team is healthy and working. \"We also are in touch with our team in Iliamna and our Alaska Native village corporation partners at Iliamna Natives Limited and Alaska Peninsula Corporation. All in-bound air traffic has been severely restricted, except for returning full-time residents who must be quarantined for 14 days upon arrival, and to ensure delivery of other necessary supplies. We intend to stay in touch to make sure those in the region are safe.\"...