Northern Dynasty calls EPA’s Pebble Mine report ‘flawed’

Jun 04, 2012 | 08:31 AM | Barbara O'Donovan

Tags  Northern Dynasty Minerals, Pebble Mine, EPA, Sean Magee, copper, gold, molybdenum, Barbara O'Donovan

NEW YORK — A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report on the potential effects of mine development in southwest Alaska is "fundamentally flawed," according to Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd., which owns 50 percent of the Pebble Mine project.

"The draft Bristol Bay Watershed assessment report is a fundamentally flawed document that reflects more on the state of politics and advocacy surrounding Pebble than on science, and that is a terrible shame," Sean Magee, Northern Dynasty’s vice president of public affairs, said at a public hearing....





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