A few weeks ago, a Bristol Bay resident wrote the following words in a Compass piece in the ADN:

Pebble Mine Development Concept 12 envisions deep-water storage of mine waste in Lake Iliamna, Alaska's largest lake and some the world's most important wild sockeye salmon habitat. The Pebble developers have yet to settle on a mine plan, so the public has no way of knowing if they still want to sacrifice Lake Iliamna or if they have their eye on one of the other countless lakes in this watershed.

I've talked to the Pebble people several times in recent years about this concept; each time they have said it was nothing more than an engineering concept and they weren't spending their time analyzing it. (Fyi - Some people might not realize that Pebble could conceivably ask for Corps of Engineers permission to fill in a lake with clean dirt or rock, and then put the mining waste on top of the former lake, without relying on the recent Kensington ruling.)

Here's an update I got from Mike Heatwole, the Pebble Partnership spokesman, when I double checked that Iliamna Lake was still off the table. He said yes, the concept was definitely dismissed.