by Yereth Rosen, Alaska Beacon September 13, 2022 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rejected an application from a Nevada-based company that was seeking to operate a controversial mining project near Nome. The Corps said on Friday it denied IPOP LLC’s application for a wetlands-fill permit for a gold-dredging operation that would have affected […]
“Uranium contamination in a system like this is forever and while the mining company can walk away, the Havasupai tribe can’t. This is, and always has been, their home.” Indigenous and environmental activists on Friday condemned an Arizona agency’s approval of a key permit for a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon that opponents say threatens […]
JUNEAU – Wednesday, the Alaska Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill 219, which provides Alaskans with an equal opportunity to retain a Personal Use Cabin Program (PUCP) permit within their family until a permanent solution can be provided by the legislature and the Division of Mining, Land and Water. The program was repealed in 1997 to […]
Mine operations will cause mercury to spike to unsafe levels BETHEL, AK — The Orutsararmiut Traditional Native Council (ONC), a federally recognized Tribe based in Bethel, took legal action today to protect the Kuskokwim River and its tributaries from the irreversible damage that will be caused by the Donlin Gold Mine. ONC filed a Notice […]