Great Lakes waters, lands, and citizen’s rights are being threatened by a recently introduced federal legislation that will expedite the permitting process for developing minerals on federal land. According to the environmental advocacy group Freshwater Future, the bill H.R. 4402 would allow federal agencies to decide whether a project has significant affects on the quality of […]
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Two Upper Peninsula women are traveling toLondon, England to attend the Rio Tinto Annual General Meeting taking place April 19, 2012. Carla Champagne of the grassroots citizens group Concerned Citizens of Big Bay and Cynthia Pryor of the Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve, plan on attending the Rio Tinto AGM meeting for two reasons:
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ARMY CORPS OBJECTS TO KENNECOTT HAUL ROAD By Gabriel Caplet of Headwaters News Once again, the Army Corps of Engineers has objected to Kennecott’s planned ore hauling road, in Marquette County. The road project, formerly called “Woodland Road,” but now going by “County Road 595” and applied for by the county road commission, “is deficient
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Last night a large number of citizens and groups attended the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality’s hearing on the proposed County Road 595. The road project permit application that was submitted by the Marquette County Road Commission was debated for 3 hours in Ishpeming. Comments both opposing and supporting the project were made.
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Tuesday 6pm, February 21st in Ishpeming at the Country Village Convention Center The Marquette County Road Commission has presented an application for a series of permits to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. The permit application proposes the construction of County Road 595, a 21 mile road that would connect US-41 with County Road AAA. The DEQ
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December 20th, 2011 Presented By: Julie Christiansen Kennecott’s “Model” Mine Tests Find Significant Toxins Flambeau Mining Co., a subsidiary of Kennecott Mineral Co., is showing high levels of toxic pollutants, 14 years after mining operations ceased. Flambeau was an open pit mine that operated from 1993-1997 and produced 181,000 tons of copper, 3.3 million
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