Sounds like a stand-off & Obama's boys blinked.
This is not uncommon in mining companies. They go bankrupt & escape prosecution, leaving the mess to the general public to pay to clean up.
Imagine what would inevitably happen if PEBBLE is ever allowed to develop. The ground water WILL BE POLUTED & we will lose the abundant salmon runs, see the country poisoned & be crippled into the foreseeable future. STOP PEBBLE.