Tribes seek to overturn Army Corps permit for controversial Alaska gold-dredging project

Tribes seek to overturn Army Corps permit for controversial Alaska gold-dredging project

The tribes’ lawsuit follows a March 11 decision by a state agency to reject IPOP’s request for a different permit that is also necessary for the project to start.

Three local tribes file lawsuit challenging Army Corps’ mining permit to IPOP

By: Anna Lionas and Diana HaeckerThe Village of Solomon, Native Village of Council and King Island Native Community filed a civil lawsuit in Alaska District Court today against the Army Corps of Engineers’ approval of IPOP LLC’s permit to dredge for gold in Bonanza Channel. The controversial mining project was first proposed in 2018 and has garnered widespread local resistance and regulatory agencies rejections of key mining permits, some of whi…