UTBB announces “Salmon Slate” endorsements for 2024 election
Today, the United Tribes of Bristol Bay announced its endorsements for candidates who are on record supporting protections for Bristol Bay’s wild salmon.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Bristol Bay Tribes Celebrate BLM Decision to Protect 28 Million Acres in Alaska
Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) took a big step toward finalizing protections for 28 million acres of federally-managed “D-1” lands in Alaska, including 1.2 million acres in the Bristol Bay region.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: In Alaska, Federal Land Managers Take a Big Step Toward Maintaining Protections on 28 Million Acres of Public Land
Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) took a big step toward finalizing protections for 28 million acres of federally-managed “D-1” lands in Alaska, including 1.2 million acres in the Bristol Bay region.
BBDF Release: Bristol Bay Tribes, Businesses, & Commercial Fishermen File Motion to Intervene in NDM & PLP Lawsuit Challenging EPA’s Clean Water Act Final Determination for Bristol Bay
Today, the United Tribes of Bristol Bay, Bristol Bay Native Association, Bristol Bay Native Corporation, Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation, Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association, and Commercial Fishermen for Bristol Bay jointly moved to intervene in a challenge by Northern Dynasty Minerals and Pebble Limited Partnership to the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to protect our nation’s clean waters from the mining of the Pebble ore deposit.
BBDF Release: Representative Peltola’s Bill to Protect Bristol Bay is Welcomed by Tribes, Commercial Fisherman, Conservation Groups
Today, Congresswoman Mary Peltola (D-AK) introduced the Bristol Bay Protection Act, a bill to codify the 404(c) Clean Water Act final determination that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued last year to end the threat of the proposed Pebble Mine due to the adverse risks it poses to Bristol Bay’s waters and the surrounding ecosystem.
BBDF Release: Tribes, Commercial Fishers, Conservation Groups Slam Northern Dynasty Minerals & Pebble Limited Partnership Lawsuits Challenging EPA’s Clean Water Act Veto of Pebble Mine
Today, Northern Dynasty Minerals and Pebble Limited Partnership – companies with a proven history of misleading their stakeholders, political manipulation, and misrepresenting the size and scope of their mine in proposals to the Army Corps – filed a lawsuit in the Federal District Court of Alaska challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Water Act veto of the Pebble Mine. This comes just two months after the Supreme Court refused to consider the State of Alaska’s original jurisdiction petition challenging the EPA’s 404(c) action. Northern Dynasty Minerals and Pebble Limited Partnership also filed a separate lawsuit in the Federal Court of Claims in Washington, D.C. alleging that EPA’s veto constituted an illegal “taking” of their property.