Wed, 12/16/2020 - 9:10am
A helicopter hovers over a camp at the Pebble mine prospect in this 2010 file photo. The decade-plus fight over the project appears to be nearing an end after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied the compay’s proposed mitigation plan in November. (Photo/Andrew Jensen/AJOC)
The Pebble project ended the year on life support after the Army Corps of Engineers handed down strict wetlands mitigation requirements the company was not able to meet.
From the outside things appeared to be moving well for the company through midsummer; the Corps released the final Pebble environmental impact statement in July that largely concluded that the large open-pit mine plan and its extensive support infrastructure would not materially impact salmon returns or the region’s water-plentiful ecosystem.