The Environmental Protection Agency announced last week that it's extending its comment period for proposed restrictions on mining of the Pebble deposit. Mining opponents have said they want the process to wrap up as quickly as possible.
Representatives with the EPA visited Dillingham and Newhalen earlier this month to hear public testimony on the agency’s proposal to protect waters around the Pebble deposit. It was the first in-person public hearings since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.Robin Samuelsen is a board member of the Bristol Bay Native Corporation. He has fished in the bay for 57 years and now fishes with four grandsons on his boat.
Bertha Pavian-Lockuk flew in to testify from Togiak, a community about 67 miles southwest of Dillingham. In 2014, when the Obama administration released a proposed determination for protections, more than a million people — including tens of thousands of Alaskans — commented in support of the federal protections for Bristol Bay. In 2019, the Trump administration revoked the proposal.
But Skadowski says the EPA’s plan would only limit mining of the deposit as proposed by the Pebble Limited Partnership. During a virtual hearing, interim CEO of Pebble Limited Partnership John Shively opposed EPA restrictions on the mine, citing demand for copper resources.
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