The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a Final Determination to block the proposed Pebble copper and gold mining project near Alaska’s ecologically sensitive Bristol Bay watershed, on environmental grounds. The decision bars Pebble Limited Partnership (PLP) from storing mine waste at Bristol Bay, which is said to host the world’s largest sockeye harvest. A unit of Northern Dynasty Minerals, Pebble Limited Partnership proposed to develop the Pebble copper- gold -molybdenum porphyry deposit (Pebble Deposit) at the headwaters of the pristine Bristol Bay watershed in south-west Alaska, as an open-pit ... (full story)