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Northern Dynasty Annual General Meeting Statement
Northern Dynasty Annual General Meeting Statement Canada NewsWire VANCOUVER, Jun...
About this update from Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd.
[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nNorthern Dynasty Annual General Meeting Statement\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCanada NewsWire\nVANCOUVER, June 25, 2018\n\n\n\nVANCOUVER, June 25, 2018 /CNW/ - Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (TSX: NDM; NYSE American: NAK) (\"Northern Dynasty\" or the \"Company\") provides the following corporate update in advance of its annual general meeting on June 28, 2018.\n\nSignificant progress on advancing the Pebble Project permitting has been made in the past 13 months:\n\n\nThe Pebble Limited Partnership (\"PLP\") secured a legal settlement with the United States Environmental Protection Agency in May 2017 enabling the Pebble Project to enter normal course permitting;\nPLP filed its 404 wetlands permit application under the Clean Water Act with the United States Army Corps of Engineers (\"Corps\") on December 22, 2017, a small footprint, no cyanide mine design;\nThe Corps \"receipted\" PLP's 404 permit application as complete on January 5, 2018;\nThe Corps announced the appointment of AECOM – a leading global engineering firm – as third-party contractor for the EIS process on February 5, 2018;\nThe Corps published guidelines and timelines for completing the National Environmental Policy Act permitting, and the associated EIS process, on March 19, 2018; and\nThe Corps initiated the Scoping process of the EIS on April 1, 2018.\n\nAs part of the EIS preparation process, the Corps will undertake a comprehensive alternatives assessment and consider a broad range of alternatives. Northern Dynasty continues to advance engineering studies and has proposed some changes to the initial mine design in the 404 permit application. Northern Dynasty cautions that the current project description may not be the ultimate development plan for the project and that a final project design has not been selected.\n\nNorthern Dynasty remains committed to advancing a responsive project design that coexists with a healthy fishery in Alaska; one that will provide substantial economic benefits to Alaska and all stakeholders and Northern Dynasty continues to seek t...