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Northern Dynasty Minerals: Pebble Partnership comments on pending release of Final EIS for Alaska's Pebble Project
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / July 15, 2020 / Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (TSX:NDM) (NYSE American:NAK) ("Northern Dynasty" or the "Company") reports that its
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[{"type":"text","content":" VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / July 15, 2020 / Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (TSX:NDM) (NYSE American:NAK) (\"Northern Dynasty\" or the \"Company\") reports that its 100%-owned US-based subsidiary Pebble Limited Partnership (the \"Pebble Partnership\") released a public statement in Alaska today commenting on the pending release of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (\"EIS\") for the Pebble Project, calling it a major project milestone. The statement released this morning quotes Pebble Partnership CEO Tom Collier: \"It is our understanding based on conversations with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) that the final EIS will be published in the Federal Register on July 24th. This will mark one of the most significant milestones for the Pebble Project. Following the final EIS, the USACE will use this document as it prepares the Record of Decision (ROD) for Pebble - a step expected to follow the publication of the final EIS. \"The USACE has been thorough and transparent with their work to date as they have undertaken this objective, technical review of our proposed plan for a mine at the Pebble site. They have worked through a range of technical issues that came from the public comments and agency reviews of the draft EIS. These issues have been the subject of meetings, conversations and correspondence between the cooperating agencies as the USACE has worked to resolve them to the satisfaction of all participants. As part of their commitment to transparency, the USACE held regular calls with interested members of the media to help add important context about their review of Pebble with the next media roundtable on July 20th, the eve of the publication of the final EIS. We have been informed that the final EIS publication date will be confirmed during this regularly scheduled call. \"The work undertaken by the USACE and the cooperating agencies to resolve these issues gives us confidence that the final EIS will demonstrate why we believe the project can be done without harm to the Bristol Bay fishery. This was confirmed earlier this year via the draft of the final EIS which noted no harm to the fishery and that the project can be developed in line with federal environmental requirements. \"Some have expressed concern that failure to publish the final EIS today, as was earlier targeted by the USACE, is evidence of a majo...