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EPA starts process that could restrict Pebble Mine
Source: Associated Press
EPA starts process that could restrict Pebble Mine
AP foreign, Friday February 28 2014
BECKY BOHRER
Associated Press= JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking the first steps toward possibly restricting or even prohibiting development of a massive gold-and-copper prospect near the headwaters of a world-premier sockeye salmon fishery in southwest Alaska.
The federal agency will ask the state and those behind the proposed Pebble Mine to make their case for the project.
An EPA report, released in January, found large-scale mining in the Bristol Bay watershed posed significant risk to salmon.
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