December 5, 2012 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced yesterday, December 4th, that they are both removing and upholding objections to the permit for County Road 595. The objection over whether the Marquette County Road Commission did an adequate job analyzing the alternative routes was removed. The objection over whether the Road Commission supplied an […]
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On Tuesday night atNorthernMichiganUniversity, the U.S. EPA held a public hearing at the request of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to hear comments about the EPA’s objections to issuing a permit to build County Road 595. County Road 595 is a project that has been put forth by the Marquette County Road Commission. The
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The Michigan Court of Appeals decided this week to hear arguments regarding a 2007 decision by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to issue mining and groundwater discharge permits to Kennecott Minerals for Eagle Mine. The case was brought forward by the original petitioners, which includes the National Wildlife Federation, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Yellow
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The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a public hearing taking place at Northern Michigan University to accept comments from all those concerned that the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is considering issuing a permit that would allow the Marquette County Roads Commission to fill wetlands for proposed County Road 595. As many of you know,
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On Saturday morning, local fire department volunteers were alerted of a chemical spill that had occurred at Kennecott’s Eagle Mine on the Yellow Dog Plains in Marquette County. About 100 gallons of hydrochloric acid from the wastewater treatment plant were leaked from a faulty valve. The acid was reportedly neutralized and circulated back through the
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More insight continues to surface as the Marquette County Road Commission and Kennecott Eagle Minerals continue to push for their planned County Road 595. The Road Commission submitted a permit application for this road in late 2011 with subsequent resubmittals, which plans for the road to begin just east of Eagle Mine on the Yellow Dog
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