"An EPA memo that could alter the fate of the Pebble mine caught many of its foes off guard last month.

But not investors.

A week before EPA General Counsel Matt Leopold directed the agency to reconsider a 2014 proposed "veto" that would block the massive Alaskan copper and gold mine, John Tumazos gave his fellow Pebble backers a rundown of a conversation with Ron Thiessen, CEO of Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. — the Canadian company behind Pebble LP."

Ariel Wittenberg and Dylan Brown report for Greenwire July 26, 2019. [2]