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Code red! Environmental challenges alarm mining industry.(SPECIAL SECTION: MINING ISSUE)

Alaska Business Monthly

| November 01, 2007 | Liles, Patricia | COPYRIGHT 2007 Alaska Business Publishing Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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Three years ago, a Fairbanks-based environmental group appealed a water discharge permit issued by federal regulators to Teck Cominco, developer of the Pogo gold mine in Interior Alaska.

The environmental challenge came a month after the permit had been issued and contractors had started work at the remote underground mine and mill complex, located about 40 miles northeast of Delta Junction.

In the following weeks, state and federal regulators met with representatives from the environmental group and the developers, and eventually hammered out an agreement in which the environmental group would retract its appeal, the ...

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