The Trump administration today unveiled the first draft environmental review of the controversial Pebble gold and copper project.
The report is a key step in the regulatory process and will lead to a 90-day public comment period for the southwest Alaska mine that has been in the works for more than a decade, the U.S. Army Corps said.
The 1,400-page report, including hundreds more pages in supporting documents, is broken down into several chapters and is available at the federal agency’s Pebble Project website, pebbleprojecteis.com.
If built, the open-pit mine would be about 200 miles southwest of Anchorage, straddling salmon-producing headwaters of the valuable Bristol Bay fishery. ...
... For the remainder of the report:
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