January 31, 2008 – 2:33 pm
Super Tuesday State Legislators Challenge Candidates to Restore Great Lakes, Outlaw Water Diversions
LANSING, MICH. (January 31) – Republican and Democratic state legislators from states representing more than a quarter of the delegates at stake on Super Tuesday today called on presidential candidates to commit to funding the restoration of the Great Lakes and to outlawing […]
January 31, 2008 – 2:04 pm
Financial Report
Food and Beverage Expense
Mailing and Advertising Expense
All Other Lobbying Expense
Total Expense YTD
2007 WINTER FINANCIAL REPORT
$.00
$.00
$8,178.00
[…]
January 30, 2008 – 1:13 pm
John Scram from H&R Block will be giving free tax advice to students and other community members in the Hunt Hall Lobby of Northern Michigan University on Jan. 31 beginning at 7pm.
STUDENTS:
Show your parents you've learned a lot this semester. Attend this workshop and find out how you can get more $$$ for you […]
January 30, 2008 – 1:11 pm
The DNR has ONLY made a recommendation and no official action has been taken!
The DNR and Kennecott recently met to discuss the requested information on Kennecott's Land Use Lease and Mining and Reclamation Plan. According to Tom Wellman of the DNR's Mineral and Land Management Section, "The DNR has issued a letter to Kennecott…whereby it […]
January 22, 2008 – 2:06 pm
The Center for Native American Studies and the Environmental Science Program at Northern Michigan University are seeking presentation proposals for the 2008 Indigenous Earth Day Summit to be held at NMU April 22-23.
The Summit will function as a call to action on Indigneous environmental issues in the Great Lakes area, on Turtle Island and around […]
January 21, 2008 – 4:51 pm
Click on links below for news on this story:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080116.wmercury1701/BNStory/National/
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/15071563/detail.html
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Scott Edwards, Informant, 914-674-0622 ext.13
U.S. Energy Company to Face Prosecution for Cross-Border Pollution in Canada:
Citizen Prosecution Brought for Mercury Contamination of St. Clair Watershed
SARNIA, ONTARIO, (January 17, 2008) - A Canadian Court has given the green light for the […]
January 18, 2008 – 2:13 pm
Rio Tinto's chief executive has announced that within the next two years they will replace humans with machines at their Pilbara Mine in Australia.
"In this world remote control "intelligent" drills will dig; driverless trucks will carry the ore to be processed and driverless trains will ferry it to a port to be shipped off to […]
January 18, 2008 – 10:46 am
Kennecott drills for nickel, copper in Carlton County
By Janna Goerdt, Duluth News Tribune
January/17/ 2008
For the past week, a lone drill has been rumbling away in a rural field in western Carlton County, drawing bedrock from deep within the earth in the search for deposits of copper and nickel.
Utah-based Kennecott Exploration Co. is planning […]
January 17, 2008 – 12:12 pm
Canadian Mining Journal, 1/13/2008
CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVE: Expensive transportation part of mining costs
By Marilyn Scales
The cost of buying an ocean-going vessel to transport iron ore is over $100 million dollars, and RIO TINTO is purchasing three of them. Each ship will be 250,000 tonnes deadweight, and move ore from the company's mines in Western […]
January 17, 2008 – 11:46 am
U. P. CD aids anti-mining effort
By Steve Seymour
January 16, 2007
Internationally renown musician Greg Brown knows the power and purpose of folk music.
His "Yellow Dog" album, drawn from an Aug. 26, 2005 performance at the historic W. C. Peterson Auditorium in Ishpeming, describes a way of life in the Upper Peninsula being threatened by […]
