Cantwell claims that Northern Dynasty Minerals has made contradictory statements to the EPA, the Securities and Exchange Commission and investors about the EPA's draft Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment and a potential mine plan. Ron Thiessen admits that the EPA may have used some of the information presented in the companies "Preliminary Economic Assessment" to create their mining scenario. But he says it's the EPA alone that is responsible for designing and then assessing the effects of the hypothetical mine in the draft Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment". Thiessen goes onto says that to suggest that Northern Dynasty is responsible for the EPA's hypothetical project, which was evaluated in the draft watershed document, when the company had not involvement with the report is wrong.