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Decision Time Article

October 17, 2007 – 4:31 pm

Mine debate echoes across state – Decision time near
By JOHN FLESHER, AP Environmental Writer
TRAVERSE CITY (AP) — Biking enthusiast Michael Robold recoils at the idea of a copper and nickel mine amid the woods and rivers of the Yellow Dog Plains.
‘‘It would be a travesty!’’ he exclaimed during a rally called by opponents.
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Detroit Free Press Front Page News: New mine could pollute pristine wilderness

October 15, 2007 – 2:53 pm

Buried treasure
UP stands to make millions off copper and nickel, but new mine could pollute pristine wilderness
October 14, 2007
BY TINA LAM
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
MARQUETTE — Every time the price of copper or nickel jumps, Alexis Raney cringes.
Each new high means the companies prospecting for metals across the wilds of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, [...]

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Detroit Free Press Editorial opposes mine

October 14, 2007 – 6:56 am

There is still time to make your voice heard: click to make public comment before October 17, 2007!
October 12, 2007 Detroit Free Press Editorial: No room for UP mine errors:
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality must tread carefully as it nears a final permitting decision for a proposed nickel mine near Marquette. Even a [...]

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New Book: “The Real Story of the Flambeau mine”

October 11, 2007 – 1:08 pm

The Buzzards Have Landed! tells the real story of how a British mining company muscled its way into a small rural community in northern Wisconsin to build a gold, copper and silver mine on the banks of the Flambeau River. Stories of the grassroots resistance movement, protests, arrests, state and local governmental actions, mining company [...]

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Al Gedicks: Sulfide Farce

October 9, 2007 – 1:21 pm

Examples show sulfide farce
By Al Gedicks
At the recent public hearings on Kennecott’s proposed Eagle Project metallic sulfide mine, company officials cited Kennecott’s Ladysmith (Wis.) mine as a model of responsible mining. This is sheer nonsense.
Neither the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources nor Kennecott disputes that there is water pollution at the mining site. Public records [...]

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Eric Hansen Writes A Wonderful Op-Ed from WI

October 5, 2007 – 3:22 pm

Eric Hansen, an award-winning outdoors-writer, has written a beautiful op-ed in The Capital Times, based in Madison, WI. Save The Wild UP would like to thank Eric for his positive contributions to this issue and the effort he puts into helping Michigan folks and organizatuions network with our Wisconsin neighbors. It really helps [...]

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Aerial Exploration in Menominee County

October 4, 2007 – 12:38 pm

Aquila Completes Airborne Geophysical Survey
TORONTO, ONTARIO — (MARKET WIRE) — 10/04/07 — AQUILA RESOURCES INC. (TSX: AQA)(FRANKFURT: JM4A) (“Aquila” or the “Company”) today announced that an airborne electromagnetic and magnetic survey at the Back Forty project in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan has been completed. The survey encompassed a block approximately 35 kilometers by 14 [...]

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Lansing City Pulse Article by Lawrence Cosentino

October 4, 2007 – 12:32 pm

You Drink It
By Lawrence Cosentino
Lansing City Pulse
The state is getting close to a decision on whether to allow Kennecott Eagle Minerals Co. to break ground — literally and figuratively — in the UP for a sulfide mine. Environmentalists are doing all they can to prevent it.
When government officials sit through lengthy public hearings, a glass [...]

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Record Eagle Blog by Todd Sears

October 4, 2007 – 12:15 pm

Sulfide mining? Mr. Rational Man says, ‘bad idea’
By Todd Sears
This whole donnybrook up in the U.P. regarding proposed sulfide mining on the Yellow Dog Plains has me a bit bewildered. Working in the federal government for over 20 years I have a good feel for how bureaucracies work, or don’t. Granted, my experience has been [...]

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