Northern Dynasty: State of Alaska to Appeal Pebble Project Permit Denial

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[{"type":"text","content":"Northern Dynasty: State of Alaska to Appeal Pebble Project Permit DenialVANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / January 11, 2021 / Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (TSX:NDM)(NYSE American:NAK) (\"Northern Dynasty\" or the \"Company\") reports the Office of Alaska State Governor Mike Dunleavy issued a statement late last week to announce his administration will formally appeal the US Army Corps of Engineers' (\"USACE\") November 25, 2020 denial of a key federal permit for Alaska's Pebble Project.In a statement released January 8, 2021, Governor Dunleavy said the USACE's Record of Decision (\"ROD\") and accompanying denial of a Clean Water Act 404 permit for the proposed copper-gold-molybdenum-silver-rhenium project in southwest Alaska is \"flawed (and)…creates a dangerous precedent that will undoubtedly harm Alaska's future.\"As owner of the land and subsurface mineral estate at Pebble, the State of Alaska has the right - along with Northern Dynasty's 100%-owned US-based subsidiary Pebble Limited Partnership (\"Pebble Partnership\"), which owns state-issued mineral claims at the property - to launch an administrative appeal of the USACE's permitting decision.Northern Dynasty believes the State of Alaska - as an asset owner and professional regulator with a constitutional mandate to develop the state's resources in the best interests of its citizens - will bring different perspectives and motivations in challenging a federal decision that Pebble believes to be arbitrary, unprecedented in Alaska and unsupported by the administrative record. This includes a serious concern about the decision's long-term implications for Alaska's ability to responsibly develop its natural resources.The Pebble Partnership's and State of Alaska's ‘requests for appeal' (\"RFA\") must be submitted within 60 days of the USACE's November 25, 2020 issuance of a ROD and CWA 404 permit denial. Pebble is preparing a comprehensive RFA to challenge the USACE's permitting decision on procedural, substantive and legal grounds, including:that it is not supported by the administrative record for the Pebble Project, including the Environmental Impact Statement published July 24, 2020; and,that mitigation requirements for Pebble are contrary to policy and precedent in Alaska, and the rejection of Pebble's Compensatory Mitigation Plan was both procedurally and substan...

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