The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing protection for the Bristol Bay watershed that would permanently ban the Pebble Mine.
Research shows sockeye salmon use many different parts of the Bristol Bay watershed during their adolescence.
“Where that mine is is the spawning beds of the greatest salmon-producing rivers in the world,” Curyung tribal chief Tom Tilden said earlier this month at the U.S. Capitol. He’d gone there to press for a mine veto, as he and others have done many times before. It has repeatedly argued that its state-of-the-art mine design will have no significant effect on Bristol Bay’s fish run.“Two decades of scientific study show us that mining the Pebble Deposit would cause permanent damage to an ecosystem that supports a renewable economic powerhouse and has sustained fishing cultures since time immemorial,” Sixkiller said in the EPA news release announcing the proposal.The EPA action would be similar to the veto the Obama administration proposed in 2014.
Ultimately, in late 2020, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers rejected Pebble’s permit application to dredge and fill in the area. Pebble is appealing that decision.
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