NRDC to World Bank: “Location, Community, and Climate-Smart”

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NRDC to World Bank: “Location, Community, and Climate-Smart”

  At last week’s launch of World Bank’s Climate-Smart Mining Facility, NRDC elevates importance of place and community, citing reckless Pebble Mine as poster child for “wrong mine, wrong place.” Last Wednesday in Washington, D.C., I was pleased to attend a gathering at the World Bank accompanying the launch of its climate-smart mining initiative—a public-private initiative based […]

Former RioTinto Expert: Pebble Mine Fails Financial Feasibility Analysis

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Former RioTinto Expert: Pebble Mine Fails Financial Feasibility Analysis

  Former Rio Tinto permitting expert concludes that proposed mine is “almost certainly not economically feasible,” with an estimated strongly negative net present value of -$3 billion. Why has the Pebble Partnership (“Pebble”) so stubbornly refused to provide a financial assessment in support of its permit application for the embattled mine it proposes to build […]