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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 ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Code red! Environmental challenges alarm mining industry.(SPECIAL...