Pebble Mine's 2013 Year End Review

One foot in the grave?

LINK (via: The Huffington Post)

It's up to the broad based anti Pebble coalition to provide the banana peel in 2014.

Ecosystems 101: Hard lessons from the mighty salmon runs of Alaska’s Bristol Bay

A definitive must read on why Bristol Bay must be protected.

LINK (via: High Country News)

Northern Dynasty CEO Ron Thiessen said the Rio Tinto move caught him by “complete surprise"

Sockeye salmon spawning Wikimedia Commons/Theinterior

First Anglo American, now Rio Tinto, ouch.

Global mining giant Rio Tinto PLC  will undertake a “strategic review” of its 19 percent stake in Canada’s Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. in yet another blow to the developers behind the proposed Pebble Mine.

Rio Tinto will consider whether the Pebble project fits with its “strategy of investing in and operating long-life and expandable assets,” according to Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto owns stakes in four productive copper mines and two ongoing copper developments in Peru and Arizona.

LINK (via:International Business Times)

Powerful pension funds urge Rio Tinto to divest from Pebble

Investors continue to target the Pebble prospect, with the latest salvo coming from the trustees of pensions funds for California and New York City that hold “substantial” shares in Pebble investor Rio Tinto.

In a short Dec. 19 letter expressing their personal views, John Chiang, controller for California, and John Liu, comptroller for New York City, tell Rio Tinto chief executive Sam Walsh they want London-based Rio Tinto to divest its 19 percent stake in the huge copper-and-gold prospect located in Southwest Alaska.

LINK (via: Alaska Dispatch)

Court overturns B.C. government’s ruling that rejected mine

Not good....

Prospects for a proposed open pit gold and copper mine located at the headwaters of the Skeena River, improved this week after a B.C. Supreme Court justice overturned a previous decision by provincial government ministers to reject the project.

LINK (via: The Vancouver Sun)

Bristol Bay watershed assesment delayed until 2014

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency does not expect to release a final report on the impacts of large-scale mining in the Bristol Bay region until early next year.

The agency had planned to release the final watershed assessment by the end of 2013.

LINK (via: Anchorage Daily News)

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2013/12/13/3228793/epa-now-expects-mine-report-in.html#storylink=cpy