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Company Operating Red Dog Mine May have to pay Fine Over Wastewater Pipeline

The Canadian company that operates the Red Dog Mine in northwest Alaska says it won’t build a pipeline to carry wastewater away from the mine site to the Chukchi Sea—now a court will decide if the company must pay a fine laid out in a 2008 lawsuit settlement.

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Matthew Smith is a reporter at KNOM in Nome.