Mr. Ronald Thiessen reports

NORTHERN DYNASTY: ALASKA GOVERNOR ASKS TRUMP TO PRIORITIZE ALASKA-SPECIFIC EXECUTIVE ORDER TO SIMPLIFY PERMITTING

Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. and 100-per-cent-owned, United States-based subsidiary Pebble LP advise that Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy recently sent a report entitled "Alaska Priorities for Federal Transition" to President-elect Donald Trump, along with a letter asking that the President-elect issue an Alaska-specific executive order on his first day in office reversing several unfriendly resource extraction initiatives put in place by the Biden administration.

Included in the document are many recommendations, including, but not limited to, simplification of the Clean Water Act regulations consistent with the Supreme Court Sackett decision on the definition of waters of the United States, the requirement for state approval for 404 (c) vetoes under certain conditions, and that changes be made to compensatory mitigation requirements to account for Alaska's unique characteristics.

"We would like to say we are in agreement with all of the governor's requests, as they will enhance the permitting process, which will allow an unbiased science and fact-based regulatory oversight and process, helping the U.S. to achieve security of supply of critical metals from American/Alaskan sources. In particular, we see that a number of the requests relate to the Clean Water Act regulations as set out above, and to several of the findings and directions within the remand order issued by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Administrative Appeal of our record-of-decision denial," said Ron Thiessen, Northern Dynasty president and chief executive officer. "The recommendations would empower the state's right to direct and oversee the permitting process, particularly on state lands, reduce agency overreach and duplication of work among federal agencies, simplify the permitting process, and help unlock the state's vast critical-mineral potential for the benefit of all Americans."

About Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd.

Northern Dynasty is a mineral exploration and development company based in Vancouver, Canada. Northern Dynasty's principal asset, owned through its wholly owned, Alaska-based subsidiary, Pebble, is a 100-per-cent interest in a contiguous block of 1,840 mineral claims in southwestern Alaska, including the Pebble deposit, located 200 miles from Anchorage and 125 miles from Bristol Bay. The Pebble partnership is the proponent of the Pebble project.

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