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REPEAT Northern Dynasty: USACE Alaska District Letter is Guiding Policy for Pebble - Seeks Mitigation Plan for ROD
Senior USACE Official Confirms Issue Following Flurry of Inaccurate Stories VANCOUVER, B...
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[{"type":"text","content":"REPEAT Northern Dynasty: USACE Alaska District Letter is Guiding Policy for Pebble – Seeks Mitigation Plan for RODSenior USACE Official Confirms Issue Following Flurry of Inaccurate StoriesVANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / August 31, 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 (\"Pebble Partnership\" or \"PLP\") issued the following public statement on August 28, 2020:A Washington Examiner story, published today, confirmed what the Pebble Partnership has been expressing for nearly a week - that the policy position of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (\"USACE\") regarding mitigation and the path to a Record of Decision (\"ROD\") for Pebble is outlined in the letter dated August 20th, 2020 addressed to the Company. The Washington Examiner reports today that Ryan Fisher, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, one of the senior leaders responsible for the USACE, clarified that the Alaska District letter is the \"guiding policy\" for the federal review for Pebble and \"not a press release from the Army that used stronger language against the project or other political noise in opposition to it\".\"We have confirmation of what we have known for some time - the policy position regarding Pebble comes directly from the Alaska District and it is exactly what we have been telling the media and other stakeholders all week. There is a path forward for Pebble and we are working our way along it. Another way to look at this is that we were working before the Monday letter and we are continuing our work today. And, so is the USACE project team,\" said Collier. \"We understood that the letter on wetlands mitigation was the operating document for the next steps in the process, but we're glad that a senior department official has clarified for others who don't understand the permitting process nor have read the actual EIS.\"Many news media outlets incorrectly reported that the Trump Administration had stopped or was going to stop the project. Much of the speculation came from misreading the intent of a USACE letter regarding the mitigation requirements the agency had set for the Pebble Project. Nothing in the letter was new to the Pebble team as the company has been in discussi...