SEATTLE Wednesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 10 Office announced, for public review and comment, a revised Proposed Determination under Clean Water Act Section 404(c) to prohibit and restrict the use of certain waters in the Bristol Bay watershed as disposal sites for the discharge of dredged or fill material associated with mining the […]
University of Alaska Fairbanks students will return to several Bristol Bay communities this year to continue quantifying and mapping widespread coastal erosion. Students in the Arctic Coastal Geoscience Lab of the UAF Geophysical Institute have been trudging through mud and scrambling over the debris of slumped-off bluffs in the region since 2016. Their research is […]
Anchorage, Alaska – Veteran Iditarod musher Brent Sass (bib #27) of Eureka, Alaska, is the first to arrive at the Kaltag checkpoint at 2:36 a.m. with 12 dogs in harness. In doing so Sass, claims the BBNC Fish First Award consisting of 25 pounds of fresh Bristol Bay salmon filets, $2,000 and a wood burned art piece […]
DILLINGHAM, AK —On January 27th, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a letter signaling a change in its original timeline to put Clean Water Act protections in place for Bristol Bay. Their letter indicates that the EPA will issue a revised Clean Water Act Section 404(c) Proposed Determination (PD) for Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed by […]
DILLINGHAM, AK – Bristol Bay Tribes celebrated the news that the Environmental Protection Agency has set a timeline for considering permanent protections for the region. The agency announced the timeline for resuming its process to review potential Clean Water Act 404(c) protections for Bristol Bay, with a deadline of May 31, 2022. “Our Tribes look forward […]
ANCHORAGE—Friday, a U.S. District Court ruling paved the way for the Environmental Protection Agency to complete its Clean Water Act process aimed at protecting Bristol Bay from the massive, open pit Pebble Mine and associated industrial development. In essence, the court has made clear that the EPA has the ability to issue 404(c) protections under […]
Biden administration signals that it will restart Clean Water Act Section 404(c) process to block the Pebble Mine DILLINGHAM, ALASKA — Thursday, commercial fishermen celebrated alongside Bristol Bay Tribes and residents as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would not defend the Trump administration’s 2019 decision to withdraw proposed protections for Bristol […]
“Bristol Bay—home to some of the world’s most important salmon runs—is simply the wrong place for an enormous, risky copper mine.” WASHINGTON (September 9, 2021) — The National Wildlife Federation heralded the Biden Administration’s action that would allow the Environmental Protection Agency to move forward with blocking the destructive Pebble Mine. “Bristol Bay—home to […]